Rediscovery of man (Orion Publishing Co)

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined aby a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled żeby 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 aby 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 aby the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.