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Norstrilia

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The discovery of stroon, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich. So rich that when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys the Earth. His picaresque adventures on Old Earth offer an exuberant, eccentric and wildly imaginative vision of the universe - a vision like no other.

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Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith

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2000
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Language
English
Publisher
Gollancz
Released
2000
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0575070188
ISBN13
9780575070189
First published
1975
Original title
Norstrilia
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The discovery of stroon, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich. So rich that when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys the Earth. His picaresque adventures on Old Earth offer an exuberant, eccentric and wildly imaginative vision of the universe - a vision like no other.