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| Cover art by Gray Morrow |
| NORSTRILIA Cordwainer Smith | Rating: 5.0 High |
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| New York: Ballantine Books, November 1978 (© 1975 Genevieve Linebarger) | ISBN 0-345-27800-3 | 277pp. | SC | $1.95 | |
| Page 50: | "The Commonwealth could have flooded the planet and could have crated small oceans..." |
| Spelling: S/B "created". |
| Page 55: | "It doesn't belong on a farm. A thing like that should be hung out of space and orbited." |
| Wrong preposition: S/B "hung out in space". |
| Page 69: | "I am only the computer which was built to tell lies..." |
| Word order: S/B "the only computer". |
| Page 73: | "It Rod McBan had caused a financial crisis..." |
| Spelling: S/B "If". |
| Page 139: | "It was wild free moisture which came laden with the indications of things living, dying, sprawling, squirming, loving with an abundance of Earth had always seemed fierce and exaggerated!" |
| Missing text: S/B "???". (I have no idea.) |
| Page 147: | "...her corona of blazing hair made her shine forth like the sun of Earth itself..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "the Sun of Earth". |
| Page 178: | "And even Old Original Australia, somewhere here on Earth, had lost its openness and freedom in order to become the single giant city-complex of Aojou Nambien." |
| Spelling: S/B "Aoujou Nambien" (going by its original appearance on page 50.) |
| Page 201: | "...but he [...] was not one of them, not a giant who had wrested treasure from the sick Earth and hidden sunshine of the Norstrilian plains." |
| Capitalization: S/B "the sick earth". |
| Page 210: | "True men are not free either, spiked the E'telikeli." |
| Spelling: S/B "spieked". |
| Page 251: | "The Lord Jestocost," he called. "McBan speaking [...]" A handsome, polished, plumpish man appeared on the screen. "If I guess right," said the strange man, you are the first human being ever to get into the depths." |
| Continuity: Rod has already met the Lord Jestocost, on page 228, after dispatching Tostig Amaral. He may not have seen Jestocost, but certainly heard his voice. |
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