Underpeople Paperback – 6 Feb. 1975

I am reviewing the 1975 Sphere paperback.It is very likely that you already know this, but this text is just about 139 pages long and is essentially the second half of the full length novel “Norstrilia” with around eighteen pages added at the beginning to help it stand on its own. A version of this first appeared as the novella “The Store of Heart’s Desire” in Worlds of If magazine in 1964.The first half of Norstrilia titled “The Planet Buyer” was also published as a Sphere paperback in 1975. This has around five or six pages added at the end, again to assist the book to stand on its own.Personally I think the reader is advised to read the full length Norstrilia first, and only read these if you have a significant interest in all things Cordwainer Smith. The insertions added at the end of the first book and at the beginning of the second do not, in my opinion, add to the story.