Orion Publishing Co The Rediscovery Of Man

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer.An interstellar 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.