an Old World". This was largely a synopsis, and is completely omitted from Norstrilia. The 1995 NESFA Press hardcover edition adds further revisions and corrections to the text, and includes variant texts as an appendix. A few lines from the original magazine texts that had been cut from previous book versions are reinstated for the sake of clarity. The novel also appears in full (using the revised 1995 text, though without the appendix), in the collection We, the Underpeople (2008), following "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" and four other related stories. Reception Algis Budrys of Galaxy Science Fiction received The Planet Buyer favorably, citing Smith's stylistic ingenuity, and noted that Smith's SF stories "are tesserae in a mosaic ... of a completely realized, seamless structure". References Sources Norstrilia, 1975. Cordwainer Smith, Ballantine Books, Norstrilia, 1995. Cordwainer Smith, NESFA Press, We the Underpeople, 2006. Cordwainer Smith, Baen Books, External links 1975 American novels 1975 science fiction novels American bildungsromans American science fiction novels Ballantine Books books Novels by Cordwainer Smith