Norstrilia

The Girl in the Road: A Novel

Author: Cordwainer Smith

The most complex and lyrical of all future histories. Lush, strange, unique, a treasure – Stephen BaxterCordwainer Smith’s stories were an amazement to me when I first read them. Forty years later, they still are… exuberant language, brilliant invention and hallucinatory imagery – Ursula Le Guin”It starts wit Rod McBan. We know his family was distinguished We know the po….Read More

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