Series: Book 22 in the SF-Masterworks series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-Masterworks, Lang:en
Summary
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.