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	Norstrilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norstrilia is the only novel published by Paul Linebarger under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, which he used for his science-fiction works (though several related short stories were once packaged together as a short novel The Quest of the Three Worlds).
		The central character of Norstrilia is an inhabitant of a planet known as "Old North Australia", or simply "Norstrilia"; this is the only location in the Instrumentality of Mankind fictional universe (in which Cordwainer set many of his short stories) to produce the precious immortality drug "stroon", which indefinitely delays aging in humans.
		Stroon (or the "Santaclara drug") is a substance harvested from the huge diseased sheep the Norstrilians raise, and which has the curious property of being resistant to all attempts at artificial synthesis by the most advanced science of the period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norstrilia (442 words)

	Issue Twelve - Australian Content
		Both Norstrilia and Void had meantime made a startling discovery that flew in the face of the expectations raised by the 1975 and 1977 workshops: that good novel-length SF was very thin on the ground.
		Norstrilia went looking for a 1970 winner of a special award for unpublished manuscripts and Moon in the Ground by Keith Antill resulted, the first novel from an Australian SF small press.
		Norstrilia had invested in an IBM electric composer, and this machine was able to provide enough outside work for Gillespie that he was able to live off the proceeds for some years (indeed, a lot of Void's composition work was done by Norstrilia).
	eidolon.net /old_site/issue_12/12_sean.htm (5096 words)

	Cordwainer Smith's Nortstrilia - A REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Norstrilia is one of those books more heard of than seen.
		Re-reading the entry on Norstrilia in David Pringle's book I notice that one of the details he gives about the story (the legality of the hero's computer) is wrong, and I tend to think that that his belief in Smith's originality is also wrong.
		In the particular instance of Norstrilia, a young man on an off-world comes to manhood by becoming a millionaire and a prosthetic ESPer at the same time.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /l.j.hurst/nrstrlia.htm (321 words)

	Organic/Mechanic Permalink » Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
		Norstrilia is one of the classic science fiction books I bought for 10 cents apiece while antique shopping last week.
		He lives on the planet Norstrilia [which used to be Old North Australia].
		I think what I like best about Smith’s writing is that he keeps things exciting, all of his characters are full and interesting people, he has created a vibrant future world and he isn’t afraid to put the things closest to his heart into his stories [which is why there are cats freaking everywhere].
	www.organicmechanic.org /2005/03/norstrilia-by-cordwainer-smith (323 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Norstrilia
		Norstrilia is part of a large future history covering tens of thousands of years, and many colourful characters.
		The themes are a fusion of Smith's political opinions and his religious philosophy, and unfortunately, we'll never know exactly how it was all going to end because he died in 1966, with much of the story yet untold.
		The circumstances of his life on Norstrilia lead to the purchase, and set him on his adventures.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/no90.htm (828 words)

	List Reviews :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		As a full length novel Norstrilia is only marginally successful.
		It's more a series of related short vignettes, that move along in jumps and starts (indeed two were previously published as short stories).
		Norstrilia, like virtually all of Smith's fiction, is part of the "Instrumentality of Mankind" storyline, recounting important actions by characters who play key roles in the evolution of that fascinating tale of our future.
	www.iblist.com /list_reviews.php?id=520 (158 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Norstrilia
		The future is an interstellar empire ruled by the Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality; a futu 1857988191.
		New 200 x 130 paperback (B format) The future is an interstellar empire ruled by the Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality; a future in which wealthy humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals made to look human.
		The future is an interstellar empire ruled by the Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality; a future in which wealthy humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals made to look human.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Norstrilia (1359 words)

	Norstrilia, buy cheap online. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Part One was published in '64, and paints a delightfully barbed portrait of the kind of people who live in Northern Australia - the antecedents of the planet of Norstrilia.
		This latter almost proves the undoing of the protagonist, Rod McBan the 151st, since he was born with a distinct genetic defect, being unable to communicate via telepathy the way everyone else does.
		I may have enjoyed Norstrilia if I were ten years younger (ah, to be young again), but at my age it just doesn't stand up to it's peers from the same time.
	www.priceoo.co.uk /p1117-norstrilia.html (2152 words)

	Norstrilia Review
		The bizarre life on Earth, in contrast to the stoic life on Norstrilia, was a change too much for me to adapt to.
		The "About the Author" page said that "Norstrilia" was "intended to be the centerpiece of a mosaic of shorter works about the Rediscovery of Man and the Holy Insurgency".
		The people of this novel left their previous hell hole planet, Paradize IV, to come to the desert planet Norstrilia where they learned how to get the immortality drug stroon from huge sheep.
	www.goldkeys.com /ScienceFiction/reviews/0915368617.html (847 words)

	Amazon.de: Norstrilia: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rod McBan becomes the richest man in the universe through the economic warfare of his inherited computer; the novel largely concerns itself with the need to survive the acquisition of wealth.
		Funny, poetic, and touching, "Norstrilia" is a bittersweet read, because it starts to show how Smith would have continued the expansion and collation of his future history, the Instrumentality of Mankind.
		At least we have his stories, which is where any new reader should start (there's a new collection in print now); much of the emotional resonance of the novel comes from recognizing characters from the shorter works, especially the cat-girl C'mell.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0915368617 (916 words)

	NORSTRILIA by Cordwainer Smith - Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums
		A few weeks back, I was fortunate enough to locate a second-hand copy of Cordwainer Smith's only full-length SF novel, Norstrilia.
		Smith (the SF pen name of US foreign policy adviser Paul Linebarger) was one of the most unusual writers to ever grace the genre.
		He grew up in China, and his knowledge of Chinese writing found expression in a number of unique literary devices, such as the masterfully ironic preface to Norstrilia that outlines the plot - and then adds that the details follow.
	www.chronicles-network.com /forum/2121-norstrilia-by-cordwainer-smith.html (725 words)

	Knox Bronson's Instrumentality Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Linebarger does indicate in his prefaces and in his frivolous prelude to Norstrilia that his writing is, in part at least, for "fun".
		Curiously, the story with the least narrative credibility is the one novel, Norstrilia, but it must be born in mind that Linebarger had not finished tinkering with it when he died.
		Elms views Linebarger's writings as an exercise in psychotherapy (though he admits there was more to them than that), and he misses the point of the three pieces he discusses because he ignores the religious dimension.
	www.instrumentality.com /cordwainer.html (4490 words)

	Norstrilia from space
		This is the planet known as Norstrilia, it's actual name is the Commonwealth of Old North Australia.
		Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons are waiting down there on Norstrilia for anyone foolish enough to try stealing the stroon.
		The 21-faceted moon and network of relay satellites are part of a deadly security system maintained by Mother Hitton, the weapons mistress of Old North Australia.
	www.fourth-millennium.net /cordwainer-vr/norstrilia-from-space.html (87 words)

	MOTHER HITTON'S LITTUL KITTONS-PAGE 2
		The reported "Kittons" of Norstrilia are nothing more than the use of organic means to induce the disease in Earth-mutated sheep which produces a virus in its turn, refinable as the santaclara drug.
		The term "Kittons" enjoyed a temporary vogue as a reference term both to the disease and to the destructibility of the disease in the event of external attack.
		This is believed to have been connected with the career of Benjamin Hitton, one of the original pioneers of Norstrilia.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/smith/smith2.html (3369 words)

	Norstilia by Cordwainer Smith
		Set in that future history, Norstrilia is the only SF novel Smith wrote.
		This new edition of Norstrilia corrects a number of errors and omissions in the previous versions.
		The NESFA Press editions of Norstrilia and The Rediscovery of Man (NESFA Press 1993) bring back into print in long-lasting hardbound editions all of Cordwainer Smith's science fiction.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /pd.php?pcode=cord01 (414 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		The current Onseck (ruler of Norstrilia) is a short-lived, stroon-allergic man, and a bitter enemy from a childhood Rod cannot remember.
		Like the bare plot outline of Norstrilia, this random grab bag of terms hardly suggests the rich, fantastic complexity of Cordwainer Smith's millennia-spanning "Instrumentality of Mankind" future history.
		However, Norstrilia is a vital work in the development of SF and an indispensable section of the Instrumentality of Mankind series, as well as a good novel.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue284/classic.html (882 words)

	Wyrmtongue Vol 6 Issue 3 - October 26th 2001
		Not that Dr Linebarger was ashamed of SF, far from it; he is even quoted as saying that science fiction has attracted more Ph.D's than any other literary genre.
		The Smith reputation was built on a sold foundation of short stories, but during his time as a writer he did write one novel, and "Norstrilia" is it.
		Originally published as two novellas (The Planet Buyer and the Underpeople) the story surrounds one Rod Mcban, a stroon farmer from Old North Australia or Nostrilia as it is known.
	www.union.ic.ac.uk /scc/icsf/library/wyrmtongues/wyrm6/wyrm6_3_6.html (922 words)

	Bibliography: Norstrilia
		Norstrilia (1975, Ballantine, $1.50, 278pp, pb) Cover: Gray Morrow
		Norstrilia (1985, Ballantine Del Rey, 0345323009, $2.95, 277pp, pb)
		Norstrilia (1994, NESFA, 0915368617, $20.95, 249pp, hc) Cover: John Berkey
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/title.cgi?1457 (123 words)

	Mirago : Arts: Literature: Authors: S: Smith, Cordwainer: Reviews
		Norstrilia - A featured review of the Gollancz edition of this novel at the SF Site, by Greg L. Johnson.
		Norstrilia - A review of the Gollancz edition of this novel, by L J Hurst.
		Norstrilia - Review of this novel, by Alex Crosse.
	www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/S/Starbuck,_George/Works (276 words)

	Amazon.ca: Norstrilia: Search Results All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith (Author) (Hardcover - December 1994)
		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith (Author) (Paperback - February 25, 2003)
		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith (Author) (Hardcover - March 17, 1988)
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/external-search?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&search-type=ss&index=blended&tag=cuscom0b-20&keyword=Norstrilia (250 words)

	Cordwainer Smith Illustrated Bibliography by Mike Bennett
		Norstrilia has a complex history of publication, ignoring the complex history of writing it also underwent.
		In February 1975, the presumed original manuscript of "Norstrilia" was published as one.
		Although it is stated in the NESFA Introduction that "Norstrilia", as first published, had been constructed from the two fragments, it seems unclear since the original printing never stated the source of the manuscript and the story flowed smoothly.
	www.cordwainer-smith.com /CSBiblio/CSBiblio.htm#hs531 (2237 words)

	Norstrilia eBook
		With Norstrilia and other eBooks loaded on to your laptop or PDA device, you'll never have to struggle with heavy books again.
		Maybe you've been looking for Norstrilia as an eBook for some time.
		Also, because the information in an eBook is digital, you can perform text searches throughout the work and find the text you are looking for - a perfect feature if you are working on research, reports or simply just want to find your favorite passage or chapter.
	www.ebook-download.net /ebooks/norstrilia.php (451 words)

	PPL - Development Plans
		The original Lensman game is © 1969, Norstrilia Software, Inc. All other material is copyright 2004 - 2006, Norstrilia Software, Inc.
		The republished version will have die-cut counters, rules clarifications and additions, a redone counter-mix.
		A completely redrawn map and counters will be provided, in addition to the retro counters and retro map
	www.lensmangame.com /ppl-developmentp.html (53 words)

	The ED SF Project: "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons" by Cordwainer Smith: An Appreciation by Alan Deniro
		But this is a story that seemingly does the impossible--have a sprightly, almost jovial tone; and at the same time incorporate a creeping and creepy sense of inevitability about its protagonist.
		Benjamin Bozart was "sworn to rob Old North Australia [Norstrilia] or to die in the attempt, and he had no intention of dying." From Viola Siderea, a planet of thieves, he was the best of their thieves, kept alive for centuries to rob Norstrilia blind.
		They have gained their wealth through the refinement of "stroon." A dollop can add decades to life; Norstrilia deals in stroon by the ton.
	edsfproject.blogspot.com /2006/03/mother-hittons-littul-kittons-by.html (855 words)

	Satellites TV - Your favourite Sci-Fi books
		Norstrilia (bloated sheep!), but don’t like other Cordwainer.
		Got to where he arrives on Mars, having been chopped into bits and transported there in pieces.
		One review claims Norstrilia is "copy" (ripoff?) of The Stars My Destination, can't see that myself.
	www.satellites.co.uk /php-bin/forum/printthread.php?t=33864&pp=40 (2708 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		This work begins with a brief biographical sketch of Cordwainer Smith, linking elements of his past to his writing and focusing on his contributions to science fiction as well as his concern with humanity.
		Also discussed are Smith’s published and unpublished novel—length non—science fiction, his revision process, the true man—underpeople dichotomy in his published and unpublished short fiction, and his only published novel-length science fiction work Norstrilia.
		Karen Hellekson is a freelance copy editor and the coeditor of Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (2006).
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-1149-X (191 words)

	Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		He passed the test of the Garden of Death, but was still a telepathic cripple - a danger to Norstrilia his enemies claimed, as owner of the guarded planet's key landholding: the Station of Doom.
		The only road to safety, his computer told him, was to become the richest man in the universe...
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Norstrilia (128 words)

	The Locus Index to SF Awards: Ditmar Nominees List
		Norstrilia Press [Rob Gerrand, BG & Carey Handfield] : australian sf or fantasy editor : 1983
		Norstrilia Press [Rob Gerrand, BG & Carey Handfield] : australian sf or fantasy editor : 1984
		Norstrilia Press [Rob Gerrand, Bruce Gillespie & CH] : australian sf or fantasy editor : 1983
	www.locusmag.com /SFAwards/Db/DitmarNomList.html (3153 words)

	Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith - Palm Reader eBook
		Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith - Palm Reader eBook
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