Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar empire ruled by 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 by 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 by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.
- ISBN10 0915368560
- ISBN13 9780915368563
- Publish Date 12 December 1993 (first published 1 June 1988)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Nesfa Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 671
- Language English