Title: Norstrilia

Title: Norstrilia Title Record # 1457
Author: Cordwainer Smith
Date: 1975-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Rod McBan
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Expansion of "The Planet Buyer" and "The Underpeople". This is the first publication of the complete novel as Smith wrote it. The publishers in the 60's felt that it was too long to publish as a single novel, so Smith broke it in two, adding a small amount of material at the end of "The Planet Buyer" and at the beginning of "The Underpeople" so they could stand separately. The 1994 NESFA Press edition includes this added material in an appendix.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1987^ⓘTranslated by 浅倉久志	Japanese	ノーストリリア^?Nōsutoriria Noosutoriria [as by コードウェイナー・スミス^?Kōdoueinā Sumisu Koodoueinaa Sumisu ]
2010	Italian	Norstrilia

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
9	1976 Locus	Best SF Novel
35	1987 Locus	All-Time Best SF Novel
Win (as ノーストリリア^?Nōsutoriria Noosutoriria )	1988 Seiun	Best Translated Long Story
46	1998 Locus	All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Norstrilia	1975-02-00	Cordwainer Smith	Ballantine Books	0-345-24366-8	$1.50^?$: US dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1975-03-00	Cordwainer Smith	Ballantine Books	0-345-24366-8	C$1.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1975-09-00	Cordwainer Smith	Ballantine Books	0-345-24366-8	$1.50^?$: US dollar	278	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1978-11-00	Cordwainer Smith	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27800-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1979-03-00	Cordwainer Smith	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27800-3	C$2.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1985-07-00	Cordwainer Smith	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32300-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gray Morrow
Norstrilia	1988-03-17	Cordwainer Smith	Gollancz	0-575-04235-4	£10.95^?£: UK pound	275	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Norstrilia	1988-05-00	Cordwainer Smith	VGSF / Gollancz (VGSF Classics #24)	0-575-04166-8	£2.95^?£: UK pound	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Avon
Norstrilia	1995-03-01	Cordwainer Smith	NESFA Press	0-915368-61-7	$20.95^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 249	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	John Berkey
Norstrilia	2000-06-00	Cordwainer Smith	Gollancz (SF Collectors' Editions)	0-575-07018-8	£9.99^?£: UK pound	277	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Norstrilia	2001-07-00	Cordwainer Smith	NESFA Press	0-915368-61-7	$22.00^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 249	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	John Berkey
Norstrilia	2003-03-00	Cordwainer Smith	ibooks	0-7434-5834-6	$12.00^?$: US dollar	275	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Scott Grimando
Norstrilia	2004-05-00	Cordwainer Smith	Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection #10)	0-7394-4321-6 / 63418	$10.99^?$: US dollar	216	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Bob Eggleton
We the Underpeople	2006-12-00	Cordwainer Smith	Baen	1-4165-2095-3	$15.00^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 465	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Bob Eggleton
We the Underpeople	2006-12-00	Cordwainer Smith	Baen	1-4165-2095-3	$6.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Bob Eggleton
We the Underpeople	2008-08-00	Cordwainer Smith	Baen	978-1-4165-5567-4	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 619+ [4]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Bob Eggleton
Norstrilia	2011-09-29	Cordwainer Smith	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10862-2	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Norstrilia	2014-08-05	Cordwainer Smith	Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-216-9	$9.99^?$: US dollar	289	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Norstrilia	2014-09-03	Cordwainer Smith	Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-217-6	$5.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Norstrilia	2016-02-11	Cordwainer Smith	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-1253-4	£9.99^?£: UK pound	ix+ 275	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Eamon O'Donoghue
Norstrilia	2020-08-00	Cordwainer Smith	NESFA Press	978-1-61037-342-5	$27.00^?$: US dollar	291	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	John Berkey

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Reviews

Review by Alice K. Turner (1975) in The Science Fiction Review, March 1975
Review by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin (1975) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1975
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (2014)
Review by L. J. Hurst (1988) in Vector 145
Review by Ken Lake (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #73
Review by Michael J. Tolley (1991) in SF Commentary, #69/70
Review by Bruce Gillespie (1991) in SF Commentary, #69/70
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1995) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1995
Review by Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison (2006) in 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels , reprinted in:
100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (2007)
100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (unknown)
Review by Graham Sleight (2007) in Locus, #555 April 2007
Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A