Showing posts with label Cordwainer Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cordwainer Smith. Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2011

THE UNDERPEOPLE

Sphere SF paperback, 1975. Cover artist uncredited, possibly
Bruce Pennington or Ray Feibush.

"The Underpeople were mutated from animal stock to serve mankind. They lived downdeep in the forgotten corridors and caverns of old earth, servants to the men who bred them in their own image.

But even underpeople dream - and often have strange powers.

And now they have a strange ally in the richest man who ever lived: the man who owned the whole planet." 

This is my second copy of The Underpeople. I didn't intend on owning two different copies, but found this one in a box with about thirty other books. 

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

THE UNDERPEOPLE

Pyramid SF paperback, 1968. Cover: Jack Gaughan.

"DOWNDEEP- 
in the forgotten corridors and caverns under the glittering, crowded surface of old earth - live the underpeople. Mutated from animal stock, they are man's servants - laborers, clerks, even pleasure girls. 
But the scorned underpeople have dreams men do not suspect - powers men cannot conceive. And now they have a strange ally, the richest man who ever lived - the winning piece in their deadly game with lords who rule the universe!"

Monday, 8 September 2008

THE BEST OF CORDWAINER SMITH

Ballantine paperback, 1975. Cover art by Darrell Sweet.

"THE UNIVERSE OF CORDWAINER SMITH 
A thousand planets acknowledged one power - the Instrumentality of Mankind. But the Underpeople - created by the Overlords to be their servants - owed fealty only to themselves... 
HERE IN ONE VOLUME ARE THE 12 MOST IMPORTANT STORIES OF THE UNIQUE WRITER WHO FUSED WONDER AND POETRY INTO IMAGINATIVE TALES THAT TRANSCEND BOTH SCIENCE AND FICTION. 
SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN 
Adam Stone had found the way for men to cross Deep Space alive - a discovery that might kill him! 
THE LADY WHO SAILED THE SOUL 
her name was Helen America, and she voyaged out to the stars - and into a timeless legend of romance... 
ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD 
They thought it was a road to a dream that would last forever - but dreams are made to be broken! 
THE BALLAD OF THE LOST C'MELL 
Never was there a girl quite like C'mell. She was not even a human being - but she was all woman! 
A PLANET NAMED SHAYOL 
Hell itself is not much to fear - if the people in it are good to each other! 
AND 7 MORE STUNNING STORIES...BY A MAN WHO DREAMED THE FUTURE."

Contents:


Scanners Live In Vain
The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
The Game Of Rat And Dragon
The Burning Of The Brain
The Crime And The Glory Of Commander Suzdal
Golden The Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
The Dead Lady Of Clown Town
Under Old Earth
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
The Ballad Of Lost C'mell
A Planet Named Shayol