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A massive spaceport that reared up from the surface of the earth to the edge of the atmosphere. “…Earthport stood like an enormous wineglass, reaching from the magma to the high atmosphere. Earthport had been built during mankind’s biggest mechanical splurge. Though men had had nuclear rockets since the beginning of consecutive history, they had [...]
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“In the shadow of Earthport, a rabbit-derived undergirl signals to you and your friends that the tour of Earthport will now begin. Triangle tours runs tours from Earthport, to the sprawling city of Meeya-Meefla at it’s base to the top of Eathport, 20 km up. ” 3 out of 5
E’telikeli is an Underperson from author Cordwainer Smith’s sci-fi universe…he shows up in uhh….”The Ballad of Lost C’mell” and Norstrilia. I think that’s it….? Someone can correct me if I’m wrong; C.S. has a billion short stories. Anyway Underpeople are animals modified to look and act like people, but basically they are treated as second-class [...]
“12000 years in the future,in the shadow of Earthport,Animal derived under-people scurry to fulfill the wishes of their human masters,leastways according to Cordwainer Smith. Inspired by the novel, Norstrilia, This is one of three pieces I did. M’inga is a mouse-girl technician that keeps the engines and factories in the Down-deep-down-deep, far below the human [...]
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“12000 years in the future,in the shadow of Earthport,Animal derived under-people scurry to fulfill the wishes of their human masters,leastways according to Cordwainer Smith. Inspired by the novel, Norstrilia, This is one of three pieces I did. Earthport hostesses are called “Girly-girls” and are expected to wait hand and foot on visitors from the stars [...]
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A version done for ‘Sci-Fi Radio’ on NPR in 1989. 4 out of 5 http://otrarchive.blogspot.com/2011/02/sci-fi-radio-npr.html
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“Haberman Modified humans controlled by cybernetic implants. A human that have been modified from most sensory reception, while their bodily functions are controlled by cybernetic implants. Habermans are needed to crew spacecraft, since unmodified humans would not be able to withstand the “pain of space”. The Pain is a side effect of interstellar travel, which [...]
“There was a problem. After a few more fine stories about the associates of Lord Jestecost and C’Mell the cat lady and all, I got a saddening letter from him. He wouldn’t be writing any more stories about the Instrumentality, he said, because he had totally run out of additional story ideas. He hadn’t thought [...]
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From Technovelgy “An animal modified to be human in shape and intellect. “…there had been the problem of the underpeople- people who were not human, but merely shaped from the stock of Earth animals. They could speak, sing, read, write, work, love, and die; but they were not covered by human law, which simply defined [...]
“A form of “faster than light” travel allows for interstellar travel. “Planoforming was sort of funny. It felt like like— Like nothing much. Like the twinge of a mild electric shock. Like the ache of a sore tooth bitten on for the first time. Like a slightly painful flash of light against the eyes. Yet [...]
“It was a story that had appeared in a semi-pro sf magazine from California called, if I remember aright, Fantasy Book. Its title was “Scanners Live in Vain.” It was about a bizarre kind of spaceflight, set in a bizarre future world, .and it was signed as by someone named Cordwainer Smith. So I included [...]
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“My second reason for raising Chandler is the homage he paid to Cordwainer Smith in no less than two of his novels. That it was a deliberate tribute to his fellow author is without question; Chandler actually placed Cordwainer Smith’s name right on the page for everyone to see, and used it in a way [...]
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Apart from tangling with a nemesis, Drongo Kane, this novel is also a homage to Cordwainer Smith, including the names of the inhabitants of a planet, and cat-bred underpeople, among other things, so that is a nice touch. Here, Kane is indulging in slavery – because currently the catpeople inhabitants are not classed as ‘true’ [...]
An online story and homage. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.tor.com/stories/2009/08/the-ruined-queen
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Find out just who is keeping down the Underpeople, here. Other than Lord Cordwainer of course. Unfortunately has wretched performance in any browser I try. Interesting idea. Terry Dowling is Lord Afervarro, for one. 3 out of 5 http://www.instrumentality.com/
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“MJ: The narrative voice of Cloud Permutations is at times self-reflexive and almost non-fictional in style, often referring to where pieces of the story were collected from primary and secondary sources. Why did you choose to tell Kal’s story in this way? LT: It’s partly homage to one of my favourite SF writers, Cordwainer Smith. [...]
Short Story Number of words : 2900 Percent of complex words : 10.3 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 16.0 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 10.5 Flesch : 64.5 Flesch-Kincaid : 8.2 PEOPLE Goldsmith Made the fife and died as a result. Bodidharma the Blessed One Ancient religious leader who is [...]
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Allied planes. 3 out of 5
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Encountered by the Bodidharma. 3.5 out of 5
A proto-Indian culture. 3 out of 5
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German military group. 3 out of 5
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Chinese barbarians. 3 out of 5
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Ancient Chinese rulers. 3 out of 5
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Site of USA space launches. 4 out of 5
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German river. 3 out of 5
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City in South Korea. 3.5 out of 5
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Chinese city. 3 out of 5
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Another name for part of China. 3.5 out of 5
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Where the fife resided in Germany. 4 out of 5
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A type of quartz. 4 out of 5
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A musical instrument. A chancy prediscovery of psionic powers with sonic triggering. Made of gold. 4 out of 5
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One of the German rocket scientists who worked at Huntsville, Alabama. 4 out of 5
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A nazi who hates Hitler and finds the fife. 4 out of 5
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Found the fife. 3.5 out of 5
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Ancient religious leader who is given the fife. 4 out of 5
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Made the fife and died as a result. 4 out of 5
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Short Story Number of words : 4700 Percent of complex words : 8.5 Average syllables per word : 1.4 Average words per sentence : 10.5 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 7.6 Flesch : 77.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 5.1 PEOPLE Gordon Greene Originally Giordano Verdi. A Space Service officer. Wallenstein An old man. Karl Vonderleyen An old lieutenant [...]
A wine. 4 out of 5
A type of flower. 3 out of 5
Designed to be implanted in a person and released in the case of needing companionship in space. 4 out of 5
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An imaginary virus created friend. 4 out of 5
Goes into the Up-and-Out. 4 out of 5
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An old lieutenant of the service. 3.5 out of 5
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An old man. 3.5 out of 5
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Originally Giordano Verdi. A Space Service officer. 4 out of 5
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Novelette Number of words : 8100 Percent of complex words : 10.0 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 12.3 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 9.0 Flesch : 70.9 Flesch-Kincaid : 6.4 PEOPLE Assistant To Mr Spatz. Mr Spatz His boss. Khruschev Russian Prime Minister. Secretary of State USA cabinet member. Undersecretary [...]
An old car. 3 out of 5
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A car. 3 out of 5
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A town in Minnesota, a diplomatic no travel zone. 4 out of 5
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Town in New York. 3 out of 5
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US city. 3.5 out of 5
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Security rating. Galactic clearance came a little bit after Universal clearance. 4 out of 5
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Russian spacecraft. 3 out of 5
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Federal Bureau of Intelligence. USA national cops. 4 out of 5
Army facility. 3 out of 5
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Diplomatic mission to the USA. 3.5 out of 5
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Army intelligence gatherers. 3.5 out of 5
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US government department. 3.5 out of 5
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Tice’s old girlfriend. 3 out of 5
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Angerhelm’s pastor. 3 out of 5
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Head of the Soviet diplomatic mission. 3 out of 5
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Famous womaniser. 3 out of 5
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Swedish admiral a couple hundred years ago. A West Pointer in the Adjutant General’s office. 3 out of 5
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Nelson’s younger brother, deceased. 3.5 out of 5
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The Soviet Assistant Military Attache. 3.5 out of 5
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A US army officer. 3.5 out of 5
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Lieutenant Colonel Potariskov : Angerhelm – Cordwainer Smith 3.5 out of 5
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Of 2322 Ridge Drive, Hopkins, Minnesota. A 62-year-old retired poultry farmer. He had served in World I. 3.5 out of 5
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Deputy to the Secretary of State. 3 out of 5
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USA cabinet member. 3 out of 5
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Russian Prime Minister. 3 out of 5
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His boss. 3.5 out of 5
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To Mr Spatz. 4 out of 5
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“Timeline From The Instrumentality of Mankind, Compiled by J.J. Pierce. Note: With Smith’s own notebooks lost, chronology is largely a matter of guesswork, based on internal evidence. But the order of stories and surounding events can be fairly well established.” 4 out of 5 http://www.theweebsite.com/ragnar/smith_time.html
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In: – Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America Author(s): Daniel T. O’Hara Published: 2003 Pages: 392 Series: New Americanists Unseen. Small piece of at google books :- http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LEto7uIGCcQC&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=Planet+Buyer+and+the+Catmaster:+A+Critical+Future+for+Transference&source=bl&ots=FPRiKOxt3s&sig=UTndEyXf9zj7dTFYEkCIpTbTck8&hl=en&ei=k8u7TNSyEoSecObp7eoM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Planet%20Buyer%20and%20the%20Catmaster%3A%20A%20Critical%20Future%20for%20Transference&f=false http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=8340&viewby=series&categoryid=33&sort=title%C3%83%C3%9C
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“Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji: Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of ‘Humanity’” (in Dream Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution) Unseen. http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/people/faculty/bio.html?page=raphals.html
“Calling a magazine “off-trail” may not be the most felicitous way for an aspiring author to introduce himself, but it was understandable if the boyish professor at Johns Hopkins University — who coyly described his work for the Pentagon as being “a visitor to small wars” — felt defensive about his novelette. Three years earlier, [...]
In : From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature by Michael Drout SFF audio says most of this lecture is devoted to Cordwainer Smith. Unseen. http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=822
Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Current writers. Index By Frank Northen Magill “Book overviewThis series contains 515 essays, revolving around authors of short fiction. Essays are arranged alphabetically by author and provide in-depth overviews of short-story writers. Each essay contains full birth and death data, substantial listings of literary works by genre, and an analysis [...]
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Title A Cordwainer Smith Checklist Issue 37 of Booklet Series Drumm booklet Author Mike Bennett Publisher Chris Drumm Books, 1991 ISBN 0936055499, 9780936055497 Length 28 pages Unseen. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EenIPAAACAAJ&dq=cordwainer+smith&lr=&cd=92
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From his Encyclopedia of Science Fiction : “Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym of Paul Linebarger, a specialist in political science who spent extensive time in Asia and who wrote three mainstream novels under other pen names. Al-though his first science fiction story appeared in 1928, he would not return to that form until the appearance [...]
From the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited with Peter Nicholls “Most famous pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913-1966), US writer, political scientist, military adviser in Korea and Malaya (though not Vietnam). A polyglot, he spent many of his early years in Europe, Japan and China, in the footsteps of his father, Paul M.W. Linebarger, [...]
Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel 1988. 4 out of 5
Seiun Award for Best Foreign Short Fiction 1990. 3.5 out of 5
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Seiun Award for Best Foreign Short Fiction 1995. 4 out of 5
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Locus Award winner for best novel, 2006. 5 out of 5
A Colder War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “A Colder War” is an English language alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos, and explores the consequences of a follow-up to the expedition in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. The story originally appeared in Spectrum [...]
A collection containing these stories : You Will Never Be The Same : No No Not Rogov! – Cordwainer Smith You Will Never Be The Same : The Lady Who Sailed The Soul – Cordwainer Smith You Will Never Be The Same : Scanners Live In Vain – Cordwainer Smith You Will Never Be The [...]
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When the People Fell : No No Not Rogov! – Cordwainer Smith When the People Fell : War No. 81-Q – Cordwainer Smith When the People Fell : Mark Elf – Cordwainer Smith When the People Fell : The Queen of the Afternoon – Cordwainer Smith When the People Fell : Scanners Live in Vain [...]
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A collection containing these stories : Under Old Earth and other explorations : The Game Of Rat And Dragon – Cordwainer Smith Under Old Earth and other explorations : On The Sand Planet – Cordwainer Smith Under Old Earth and other explorations : Under Old Earth – Cordwainer Smith Under Old Earth and other explorations [...]
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A collection containing these stories : Stardreamer : Think Blue Count Two – Cordwainer Smith Stardreamer : Under Old Earth – Cordwainer Smith Stardreamer : The Crime And The Glory Of Commander Suzdal – Cordwainer Smith Stardreamer : The Good Friends – Cordwainer Smith Stardreamer : The Fife Of Bodhidharma – Cordwainer Smith Stardreamer : [...]
A collection containing these stories : Instrumentality Of Mankind : No No Not Rogov! – Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality Of Mankind : War No. 81-Q – Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality Of Mankind : Mark Elf – Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality Of Mankind : The Queen Of The Afternoon – Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality Of Mankind : When The People [...]
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A collection containing these stories : Space Lords : Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons – Cordwainer Smith Space Lords : The Dead Lady Of Clown Town – Cordwainer Smith Space Lords : Drunkboat – Cordwainer Smith Space Lords : The Ballad Of Lost C’Mell – Cordwainer Smith Space Lords : A Planet Named Shayol – Cordwainer [...]
A collection containing these stories : We the Underpeople : The Dead Lady of Clown Town – Cordwainer Smith We the Underpeople : Under Old Earth – Cordwainer Smith We the Underpeople : Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons – Cordwainer Smith We the Underpeople : Alpha Ralpha Boulevard – Cordwainer Smith We the Underpeople : The [...]
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A collection containing all the stories : Rediscovery of Man : No No Not Rogov! – Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery of Man : War No. 81-Q revised – Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery of Man : Mark Elf [Mark XI Vom Acht sisters] – Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery of Man : The Queen of the Afternoon [Vom Acht sisters] [...]
A variant title : A collection containing these stories : – Best of Cordwainer Smith : Scanners Live in Vain – Cordwainer Smith Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Lady Who Sailed the Soul – Cordwainer Smith Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Game of Rat and Dragon – Cordwainer Smith Best of Cordwainer Smith [...]
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A collection containing these stories : Quest Of the Three Worlds : On The Gem Planet – Cordwainer Smith Quest Of the Three Worlds : On The Storm Planet – Cordwainer Smith Quest Of the Three Worlds : On The Sand Planet – Cordwainer Smith Quest Of the Three Worlds : Three To A Given [...]
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