Full name: Under Old Earth and Other Explorations

Author: Cordwainer Smith Year: 1966 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780586033029 0586033025

A cosmos of beauty and terror on the far side of time The universe you will explore in these stories by a famous science fiction author is surely one of the most colourful and weird ever conceived. Untold millennia in the future, a thousand planets throughout the galaxy acknowledge one ruler - the Instrumentality of Mankind. Giant planoforming ships travel the hazardous spaceways. Men and women genetically 'built' from animals do civilization's labour - and plot in secret, planning revolution. But the hell-planet Shayol with its bizarre torments awaits those who rebel against the dictatorial yoke of the Instrumentality... Contents : * Introduction by Anthony Cheetham * The Game of Rat and Dragon * On the Sand Planet * Under Old Earth * Alpha Ralpha Boulevard * The Ballad of Lost C'mell * The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal * A planet Named Shayol Similar books: Space Lords by Cordwainer Smith Wool by Hugh Howey Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov Cryptic by Jack McDevitt The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury The Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard The Third Level by Jack Finney Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds The Instrumentality of Mankind by Cordwainer Smith Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon