From back cover: Rod McBan the hundred and fifty-first---the richest boy in the galaxy!
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... and he did, in one crowded, unbelievable night.
The computer's logic was faultless... but Man isn't logical. And now Roderick Frederick Ronald William MacArthur McBan 151st had a galaxy of people--and other beings--out to rob him, to use him... or to kill him!
Cordwainer Smith published this novel earlier in one of the SF mags, broken into two parts. In it, he brings together some of the characters from his memorable short stories. We meet again the girly-girl C'mell and E'tellikelly. We deal with go-captains, and with stroon-users who live for thousands of years. We carefully avoid the lethal menace of Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
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... and he did, in one crowded, unbelievable night.
The computer's logic was faultless... but Man isn't logical. And now Roderick Frederick Ronald William MacArthur McBan 151st had a galaxy of people--and other beings--out to rob him, to use him... or to kill him!
Cordwainer Smith published this novel earlier in one of the SF mags, broken into two parts. In it, he brings together some of the characters from his memorable short stories. We meet again the girly-girl C'mell and E'tellikelly. We deal with go-captains, and with stroon-users who live for thousands of years. We carefully avoid the lethal menace of Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
