We the Underpeople

Cordwainer Smith

Book 1 of Instrumentality of Mankind

Language: Unknown

Publisher: Baen

Published: Jan 2, 1968

Description:

Novel and short stories: 1 Norstrilia [Novel] 2 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard 3 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons 4 The Ballad of Lost C'Mell 5 The Dead Lady of Clown Town 6 Under Old Earth Humans are kept stagnantly happy by the 'Instrumentality' totalitarian government. Underpeople are slave humanoids bred from animals. Planet Norstrilia is the only source of drug stroon that makes man immortal, where Rod McBan is a boy, yet owns Earth. On Earth, he joins C'Mell and the Underpeople to bring back freedom.