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時は〈人間の再発見〉の第1世紀。シェイヨルの星が、リンゴを服の袖でこするように磨かれていた時代。銀河随一の富める惑星ノーストリリアで、ひとりの少年が地球という惑星を買いとった。少年は地球へやってきて、なみはずれた冒険を重ねたすえに、自分のほしいものを手に入れ、ぶじに帰ることができた。あんなことは一度あっただけ。二度と起こらないようにわれわれは手をうった。お話はそれだけだ。さあ、これでもう読まなくてもいい。ただ、こまかいところは別。それはこの本のなかに書いてある。ひとりの少年が出会った真実の恋と、手に汗にぎる冒険の日々が…。
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Cordwainer Smith, pseudonym of the late Paul Linebarger, a professor and part-time spy, wrote only one SF novel, but it is in keeping with the picture of a future world he built in his other fiction. This novel, originally conceived and published in two parts in 1964 and '68, and later issued in paperback by Ballantine in 1975, begins like a more traditional SF tale. Protagonist Rod McBan's Norstrilian peers consider him inferior because he lacks their telepathic abilities. Nearly "culled" as part of the strictly regulated society's population control, McBan uses a computer to arbitrage the galactic financial markets, enabling him, literally, to buy Earth. While the first half would merely have made an interesting novel, the second, more lyrical part displays Smith's superior writing abilities as he describes both the Underpeople (genetically designed combinations of humans and other species-and the Instrumentality (an organization for keeping humanity from becoming stagnant). The result: a novel that transcends its time. Though not a scholarly edition (the variorum is incomplete and the introduction leaves much to be desired), this composite text, ably edited by James A. Mann, is a fine companion to the author's complete short fiction, The Rediscovery of Man.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the ハードカバー edition.
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