Description

This classic science-fiction collection carries readers into a far-future universe where humanity has transformed, expanded across the stars, and begun to rediscover the meaning of compassion, freedom, and individuality. Its stories explore the uneasy relationship between humans and the engineered “underpeople,” as well as the moral costs of progress, power, and social control. Blending space opera, myth, political allegory, and profound humanism, the book showcases a distinctive, lyrical style that is both strange and deeply moving. Together, these tales form an imaginative portrait of civilization at the edge of becoming something new.

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paperback edition cover

paperback

Baen

Published Sep 4, 2007

624 pages

ISBN: 9781416521464

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Details

First Published

2007

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for When the People Fell by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger.

Violence
Death/Grief
War/Trauma