The Best of Cordwainer Smith
โ Scribed by Cordwainer Smith
- Publisher
- Ballantine
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The Plot
The twelve stories in this collection, written separately and published between 1950 and 1964, fit into a consistent future history that covers human development from the Second Age of Space to the era of rights for underpeople and the Rediscovery of Man. Many of the stories involve the Instrumentality, a ruling bureau- cracy that is not always admirable but ultimately manages to keep man man.
Set in the Second Age of Space, Scanners Live in Vain concerns the scanners, men surgically cut off from their senses in order to endure the pain of space...
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Contents: To the Far Reaches of Space (1928) Robot Nemesis (1934) Pirates of Space (1934) The Vortex Blaster (1941) Tedric (1953) Lord Tedric (1954) Subspace Survivors (1960) The Imperial Stars (1964) Library : Science Fiction Formats : EPUB ISBN : 9780860078739
SUMMARY: Eight stories by a master of science fiction include Robot Nemesis, Pirates of Space, The Vortex Blaster, and Subspace Survivors