When the People Fell Anthology by Cordwainer Smith (Author), Frederik Pohl (Introduction), Hank Davis (Compiled by)
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Overview: A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part human and part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light, but must defend themselves against the malevolent, mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars. Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality, who ruled Earth and its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence, suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man, when the strange, lost concept of freedom was reborn. . . . An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction, praised by readers, critics, and major writers in the field
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
SECTION I:
Instrumentality Stories
No, No, Not Rogov!
War No. 81-Q
Mark Elf
The Queen of the Afternoon
Scanners Live in Vain
The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
When the People Fell
Think Blue, Count Two
The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
The Game of Rat and Dragon
The Burning of the Brain
From Gustible's Planet
Himself in Anachron
The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
Golden the Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!
Drunkboat
A Planet Named Shayol
On the Gem Planet
On the Storm Planet
On the Sand Planet
Three to a Given Star
Down to a Sunless Sea
SECTION II:
Miscellaneous Works
War No. 81-Q
Western Science Is So Wonderful
Nancy
The Fife of Bodidharma
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 656 KB
Overview: A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part human and part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light, but must defend themselves against the malevolent, mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars. Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality, who ruled Earth and its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence, suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man, when the strange, lost concept of freedom was reborn. . . . An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction, praised by readers, critics, and major writers in the field
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
SECTION I:
Instrumentality Stories
No, No, Not Rogov!
War No. 81-Q
Mark Elf
The Queen of the Afternoon
Scanners Live in Vain
The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
When the People Fell
Think Blue, Count Two
The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
The Game of Rat and Dragon
The Burning of the Brain
From Gustible's Planet
Himself in Anachron
The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
Golden the Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!
Drunkboat
A Planet Named Shayol
On the Gem Planet
On the Storm Planet
On the Sand Planet
Three to a Given Star
Down to a Sunless Sea
SECTION II:
Miscellaneous Works
War No. 81-Q
Western Science Is So Wonderful
Nancy
The Fife of Bodidharma
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