Nesfa press framingham ma 1993 (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Octavo, hardcover, new in shrinkwrap in blue and black decorative dj. The third story in this volume takes place 16,000 years in the future. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia.These are futuristic tales told as myth, as legend, as a history of a distant and decayed past. Written in an unadorned voice. space travel takes a horrendous toll on those who pilot the ships through the void. After reaching perfection, the lack of strife stifles humanity to a point of decay and stagnation.…