Space Lords Author:Cordwainer Smith LORDS AND REBELS — The Lords of the Instrumentality ruled all the planets of the Universe, from Manhome itself to Norstrilia - and their rule was absolute. There were only a few to defy them - a 200-year-old master thief, the dog-girl who became a saint, the grotesquely tormented convicts of a hell-planet. Their stories - and other eerie, stirrin... more »g tales of the Instrumentality - make a distinguished and memorable book of science fiction by one of today's masters.
Giant planoforming ships ply the spaceways...
Men "built" from animals do mankind's labor - and plot in secret...
Living weapons guard the most important secret in existence...
A thousand planets acknowledge one ruler - the Instrumentality of Mankind...
Wierd, beautiful, terrifying - these stories of the far future paint a picture of the strangest universe ever imagined.« less