Norstrilia: Cordwainer Smith's Only Science Fiction Novel

Rod McBan is a likable teenager who has had four childhoods. Unable to spiek or hier like normal Norstrilians, three times he has faced the Garden of Death, and three times the decision has been to give him another childhood in the hopes that he would develop normally.

But this time, there will be no more childhoods.

The story begins:

This is the only novel that Cordwainer Smith wrote. I usually recommend it to people as an easy introduction to his works and an engrossing story in its own right. It was pulled together from various tales, as the introduction by Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms explains. The rest of the Cordwainer Smith science fiction stories are in The Rediscovery of Man.

My father spent time in Australia, teaching there, and here's a family snapshot of him with some of the sheep that sparked his imagination:

Contents

Introduction, by Alan Elms
Theme and Prologue
At the Gate of the Garden of Death
The Trial
Anger of the Onseck
The Old Broken Treasures in the Gap
The Quarrel at the Dinner Table
The Palace of the Governor of Night
The Eye Upon the Sparrow
FOE Money, SAD Money
Traps, Fortunes and Watchers
The Nearby Exile
Hospitality and Entrapment
The High Sky Flying
Discourses and Recourses
The Road to the Catmaster
The Department Store of Hearts' Desires
Everybody's Fond of Money
Tostig Amaral
Birds, Far Underground
His Own Strange Altar
Counsels, Councils, Consoles and Consuls
Appendix: Variant Texts

You can get Norstrilia at various places: here's a link to the network of booksellers that sell through Alibris.com

It may be on eBay -- that link is for the US. Here are links for eBay in the UK, Australia, and Canada. These are set for "Cordwainer Smith," so you may see more than Norstrilia.

Of course, it's reliably on Amazon.com:

 And at Amazon in the UK:

At the time I checked, the British Amazon also had several copies of a paperback edition put out by Gollancz:

Of course, you can buy it directly from the publisher, NESFA, but they do state on their website that you need to allow several weeks for delivery. (They are a volunteer organization.) I used to buy from them wholesale and sell directly from this website, and my experience was that it often did take a good while to get orders.