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The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith (Paperback, 2010)

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Author: Cordwainer Smith. Title: The Rediscovery of Man. Series: S.F. Masterworks. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people.

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Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth and extraordinary imagination.