We the Underpeople

cordwainer smith

Novel and short stories:
1 Norstrilia [Novel]
2 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
3 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
4 The Ballad of Lost C'Mell
5 The Dead Lady of Clown Town
6 Under Old Earth
Humans are kept stagnantly happy by the 'Instrumentality' totalitarian government. Underpeople are slave humanoids bred from animals. Planet Norstrilia is the only source of drug stroon that makes man immortal, where Rod McBan is a boy, yet owns Earth. On Earth, he joins C'Mell and the Underpeople to bring back freedom.

Genres science fictionfictionspace operashort storiesanthologiesscience fiction fantasyfantasyshort story collection

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1968

Series

Instrumentality of Mankind

This edition

Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Published: November 28, 2006 by Baen
ISBN: 9781416520955
ASIN: 1416520953
Language: English

About the author

cordwainer smith

Pseudonym of:
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller Atomsk), "Anthony Bearden" (for his poetry) and "Felix C. Forrest" (for the novels Ria and Carola).

Linebarger was also a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare.