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Norstrilia

By: Ballantine Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Ballantine Books)

Last Stocked on 10/19/2022

Product Info

Title
Norstrilia
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Cordwainer Smith
Publish Year
1975
Pages
278
Dimensions
4.25x7x1"
NKG Part #
2147858798
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.

To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . .