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 and [...]
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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 of [...]
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, a [...]
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
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“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 SF #3 [...]
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 Same : The Game [...]
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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 – Cordwainer Smith
When the [...]
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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 : Alpha Ralpha Boulevard [...]
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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 : When The People Fell – Cordwainer [...]
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 Fell – Cordwainer Smith
Instrumentality Of [...]
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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 Smith
5 out of 5
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 Ballad of Lost C’mell – [...]
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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] – Cordwainer Smith
Rediscovery of [...]
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 : The Burning of [...]
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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 Star – Cordwainer Smith
3.5 [...]
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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 : The Burning of the Brain – Cordwainer [...]
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Instrumentality of Mankind
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In the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind refers both to Smith’s personal future history and universe and to the central government of humanity. The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 [...]
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The Rediscovery of Man
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The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith (ISBN 0-915368-56-0) is a 1993 book containing the complete collected short fiction of science fiction author Cordwainer Smith. It was edited by James A. Mann and published by NESFA Press.
Most of the stories take place [...]
Norstrilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norstrilia is the only novel published by Paul Linebarger under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, which he used for his science-fiction works (though several related short stories were once packaged together as a short novel The Quest of the Three Worlds). It takes place in Smith’s Instrumentality of Mankind universe, and [...]
A Planet Named Shayol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “A Planet Named Shayol”
Author Cordwainer Smith
Country USA
Language English
Series Instrumentality of Mankind
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Published in Galaxy Science Fiction
Publication type Periodical
Publisher World Editions
Media type Print (Magazine)
Publication date October 1961
Preceded by “Norstrilia”
Followed by “Quest of the Three Worlds”
A Planet Named Shayol is a story by Cordwainer Smith (penname of Paul Linebarger) set in his Instrumentality universe. It was first [...]
The Ballad of Lost C’Mell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell”
Author Cordwainer Smith
Country USA
Language English
Series Instrumentality of Mankind
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Published in Galaxy Magazine
Publication type Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
Publisher Galaxy Publishing
Publication date October 1962
Preceded by “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard”
Followed by “Norstrilia”
“The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” is a classic science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith. It was first published in October [...]
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Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard”
Author Cordwainer Smith
Country USA
Language English
Series Instrumentality of Mankind
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publication type Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback)
Publisher Mercury Press
Publication date June 1961
Preceded by “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons”
Followed by “A Planet Named Shayol”
“Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” is a science fiction story by Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of [...]
Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons
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“Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons” is a classic science fiction short story written by Cordwainer Smith, first published in Galaxy Magazine in 1961. It is collected most recently in The Rediscovery of Man. It details the methods by which the Norstrilians (or “Old North Australians”) of Smith’s fictional [...]
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The Dead Lady of Clown Town
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“The Dead Lady of Clown Town” is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1964. It was included in the collection The Best of Cordwainer Smith and [...]
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The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
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“The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal” is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in Smith’s “Instrumentality” universe. It was first published in Amazing Stories in May 1964, and is collected in The Rediscovery of Man compendium.
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Plot
Commander Suzdal is [...]
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The Game of Rat and Dragon
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“The Game of Rat and Dragon” is a short story written by Cordwainer Smith[1] in 1955.
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Plot Summary
The story takes place in the far future. Human travel in outer space is threatened by strange creatures known as the Dragons. Imperceptible to ordinary people, Dragons are experienced [...]
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When the People Fell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “When the People Fell”
Author Cordwainer Smith
Country USA
Language English
Series Instrumentality of Mankind
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Published in Galaxy Science Fiction
Publication type Periodical
Publisher World Editions
Media type Print (Magazine)
Publication date April 1959
Preceded by “The Lady Who Sailed the Soul”
Followed by “Think Blue, Count Two”
“When the People Fell” is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in his “Instrumentality” universe. [...]
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Scanners Live in Vain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Scanners Live in Vain” is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Linebarger), set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally published in the magazine Fantasy Book in 1950. It was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America [...]
“Nobody—with the possible exception of A.E. van Vogt, whose dreamlike, surreal The World of Null-A was first published around the time Cordwainer Smith was writing “Scanners”—wrote science fiction that sounded like that. The lucid, unadorned prose setting forth the immeasurably strange—it was a new kind of voice.
I read on and on. One bizarre term [...]
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Atomsk (novel)
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Atomsk, first published in 1949, is a Cold War spy novel by “Carmichael Smith”, one of several pseudonyms used by Paul Linebarger, who wrote fiction most prolifically as Cordwainer Smith.
Linebarger’s third published novel, it has long been out of print. Copies regularly command figures in the hundreds of U.S. [...]
Have done an edition of The Game Of Rat and Dragon.
4 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a34034
Have done an edition of The Game of Rat and Dragon.
4 out of 5
http://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-025/
Online audio.
4 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/short_scifi_025_0908_librivox/gameofratanddragon_smith_gam_64kb.mp3
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His daughter has published an ebook edition of the spy novel Atomsk, available here :-
4 out of 5
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/atomsk.htm
“Sarah saw, with a flash of intuition, that she had caught him betraying himself — for the first distinguishable second in days of their being together. For once, Dugan had gone back to his wartime role and had responded with the manner of a Japanese, the dead formal silence with which Japanese men bore news [...]
Dikty 02 : The Game of Rat and Dragon – Cordwainer Smith
4 out of 5
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Have produced this book :-
Scanners and Others: Three Science Fiction Stories
4 out of 5
http://www.amazon.com/Scanners-Others-Science-Fiction-Stories/dp/155742120X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYODRJUNT64YDW3A%26tag%3Dtravel0fd-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D155742120X
““The Animal Down-Deep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the Underpeople,” Carol McGuirk, professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and an editor of Science Fiction Studies. During the 1980s she wrote a column on science fiction for the New York Daily News, and she has written three books about the poet Robert Burns. As a [...]
An interior illustration from the Galaxy story.
4 out of 5
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XhAzekAG0tg/S972shHA3BI/AAAAAAAADpo/iMkbpK-kCko/s320/Virgil+Finlay+-+The+Ballad+Of+Lost+C’Mell.jpg
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Interior illustration for the story :-
4 out of 5
http://www.collectorshowcase.fr/images2/intgy_5510.jpg
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‘Story Cycles of Future History: Cordwainer Smith’s Instrumentality of Mankind’, in Yearbook of English Studies 31 (2001), pp.133-143.
The first part you can see at Jstor, here :-
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3509380
Will see if I can find it in a database.
A site with a few quotes and links, and this :-
“Unreasonable Books will be publishing an original art and prose book, entitled Stroon, devoted to Paul Linebarger and to the worlds he created as Cordwainer Smith. Stroon will be edited by sf writer David Lubkin.”
3 out of 5
http://stroon.net/index.html
Link to a picture of the author.
4 out of 5
http://www.noosfere.org/images/auteurs/Smith-Cordwainer.jpg
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A German bibliography.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.epilog.de/PersData/S/Smith_Cordwainer_1913/
A French site.
http://www.noosfere.org/icarus/livres/auteur.asp?numauteur=534
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“Strangeness, said John Gardner, is the one thing in fiction that cannot be faked. Strangeness is, famously, the defining characteristic of Cordwainer Smith’s science fiction, and a good deal of ink is expended in the introductions of the books explaining where that strangeness comes from. (I may be about to do the same.) But strangeness, [...]
Continue reading about Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Cordwainer Smith – Graham Sleight
“The science-fiction writings of Cordwainer Smith consist of some twenty-odd short stories and two novels, which chart the history of an evolving civilisation over some fifteen thousand years. The history is internally consistent, and each story contributes to a coherent picture of the technological, social and spiritual development of the future described.
In real life, Smith [...]
On being a slow thickie :-
“Cordwainer Smith
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I tend to be something of a late adopter, when it comes to writers. I didn’t read any Fritz Lieber until I was in my early twenties, didn’t read any Philip K. Dick until I was 28, and didn’t read any Alfred Bester until I [...]
Introduction to the story from The Ascent of Wonder
” Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym of Paul Linebarger, a mysterious and colorful figure who was an expert on psychological warfare (he wrote a standard text) and spent his career in the Intelligence community. He went to college with L. Ron Hubbard, the famous pulp science fiction [...]
Continue reading about No No Not Rogov! – David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
“There is a rosy gloom in the stories of Cordwainer Smith. They take place in a candy apple universe where the candy is sometimes hard to find. Whether the picture he creates is painted over the gloom or the gloom painted over the picture is difficult to determine. There seems to be [...]
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Has done an audio version of the Game of Rat and Dragon.
4 out of 5
A couple of magazine pieces scanned here:-
4 out of 5
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/virgil_finlay.htm
Some great stuff there. Going to get that Mother Hitton piece sometime in some format.
5 out of 5
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/craig-moore.htm
“Pierre Lacombe was the illustrator of the very first, 3-volume French hardcover edition of INSTRUMENTALITY published by Editions Opta in 1974. His work is similar enough to that of Virgil Finlay that I mistakenly had put these pictures on the Finlay page until someone set me straight. Here are some of his striking illustrations.”
4.5 out [...]
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A lot of computer artwork from different stories.
4 out of 5
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/cordwainer-vr/cs-index.html
Continue reading about The Universe Of Cordwainer Smith – Corby Waste
An article about the author.
4 out of 5
http://templetongate.tripod.com/csmith.htm
In World weavers: globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution By Kin-yuen Wong, Gary Westfahl, Amy Kit-sze Chan
Unseen.
Named after the man. Well worth looking up and seeing if you have read anything by the authors named. Includes some of the greats.
5 out of 5
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/foundation.htm
“Paul M.A. Linebarger was a military expert in Far Eastern politics and in psychological warfare, active in many countries during World War Two and two post-war decades. At the same time, under different pseudonyms, he published two remarkable psychological novels and many acclaimed science fiction stories. The present paper focuses on thematic similarities between Linebarger’s [...]
Journal title FOUNDATION -DAGENHAM-Bibliographic details 2000, ISSU 78, pages 44-57
Unseen.
Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3, Japanese Science Fiction (Nov., 2002), p. 529
Short note on Japanese translations and work.
3 out of 5
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Science-Fiction Studies, 1984, 1J, 270-279
A biographical highly detailed overview.
“The eye destroyed in childhood had been replaced by a non-organic prosthesis, a glass shell covering a metal ball. Linebarger wore that prosthesis in his eye-socket for the rest of his life, just as the scanners wore a kind of prosthesis embedded in their chests, their control [...]
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In Space and beyond: the frontier theme in science fiction By Gary Westfahl
Unseen.
Science Fiction 10 (1982)
Unseen.
Essay in Science Fiction Studies, July 2001.
“Smith’s stories are often framed as fragmentary tales of long-ago events. “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” is set, according to Pierce’s chronology, around 13,000 AD; yet the viewpoint of its narrator is firmly retrospective: “You already know the end-the immense drama of the Lord Jestocost…. But you do [...]
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[Note: This is a partial working summary, based in large part on Paul Linebarger's own autobiographical lists. I will add to it and further correct it as I continue to work on his biography. For additional biographical information and many photographs of PMAL, see the website maintained by his daughter, Rosana Hart: http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/]
4 out of [...]
Continue reading about Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger Biographical Summary – Alan C. Elms
A brief list.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/csfaq.html
“There are two major archives of the papers of Paul M. A. Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith). The bulk of his fiction manuscripts, including his science fiction, is held by the Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. The bulk of his papers dealing with China, psychological warfare, and other topics connected with his academic [...]
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Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 8: Twentieth Century American Science-Fiction Writers, part 2, published by the Gale Research Company in 1981.)
Unseen.
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Published in a book edited by Tom Clareson, Voices for the Future, volume 3 (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1984)
Unseen.
In Science-Fiction Studies, in 1977
“All three themes are evident in the short and widely anthologized story “The Game of Rat and Dragon.” While this story on one level is a highly imaginative treatment of conventional themes of romance and heroism, it is also a revealing treatment of science fiction as a codification, perhaps “mythification,” of [...]
“Discovering the writings of Corwainer Smith in the early 1970’s was a life-changing revelation. At that time, neither his one novel, Norstrilia, nor any comprehensive compilation of his incredible short stories were in print. For years, I would scour used bookstores in search of his stories, finding one of his stories in this or that [...]
Continue reading about Christianity and Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith – James Jordan
A remembrance article by his daughter, Rosana.
“I have quite a few memories of his writing science fiction. It was fun for him, something he did on the side. He would tell me with some glee what some obscure reference meant… too bad I don’t remember most of those. I do remember his saying that his [...]
Short bio from a fanzine.
2.5 out of 5
http://fanac.org/fanzines/Speculation/Speculation33-02.gif
“I’ll use this space to note contributions to the scholarly literature I’m most familiar with: what I’ll call the scholarly Smith scholarship. I call it that not because it’s more serious than the fannish scholarship (some of which is very serious), but because it’s done by people who make their living (or a good part [...]
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“Though I have yet to come across solid documentary evidence, I think the circumstantial evidence (including but extending well beyond Leon Stover’s recollections) is strong: Paul Linebarger was Kirk Allen, or at least a substantial component of Kirk Allen. It’s still possible that Robert Lindner combined two patients who suffered from apparently similar symptoms, better [...]
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“Norstrilia: Readers often pronounce the name of this planet with a short “i” in the middle, but you should keep in mind that its settlers were Australians. Australians often jokingly (or sometimes seriously) pronounced the word “Australian” as “Strine,” and Paul Linebarger pronounced “Norstrilia” (short for “Old North Australia”) as Nor – STRILE – ya.”
4.5 [...]
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“It’s as if I’d always lived part of my dream life—these memories of the future—in the strange, terrible universe of the Instrumentality of Man, with its animal-derived Underpeople and laminated robot brains, its enigmatic Lords and Ladies, ancient Daimoni, planoforming ships crossing the terrors of the Up and Out, Viola Siderea, the vast mushroom tower [...]
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“Major, United States Army Colonel, United States Army Reserve Science Fiction Writer: Cordwainer Smith”
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/linebarg.htm
Also with a photograph of his tombstone, here :- http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/pmline2.jpg
5 out of 5
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“And you know what? Most of these — check that, all of these — pale beside the finest writer the field has ever seen, the one against whom all others are never measured because it would be demonstrably unfair: Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, known to his illustrious godfather (I’ll get to it, don’t worry) as [...]
Continue reading about Forest Of Incandescent Bliss – Bud Webster
“An anthology of articles about Cordwainer Smith in a 1975 booklet, Exploring Cordwainer Smith, edited and published by Andrew Porter has some interesting bits in it. I thought so several years ago when I read it, but I don’t have my copy with me at present. I think it’s of greatest interest to scholars and [...]
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“The paperback book is 158 pages long: that’s 104 pages of the text itself, followed by a glossary of CS terms, a bibliography, a list of manuscripts at the Spencer Research Library in Lawrence, Kansas, and an index. Its $35 price tag seems steep to me, but I suppose academic books tend to cost more [...]
Continue reading about The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith – Karen Hellekson
Publisher of the two volume paperback complete SF works.
5 out of 5
http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=csmith
Publication of a two-volume set of his complete SF work.
5 out of 5
http://www.webscription.net/s-95-cordwainer-smith.aspx
“Hundreds of entries, arranged alphabetically, answer such questions as:What characters, besides the famous girlygirl C’Mell and the heroine D’Joan, have names beginning with C’ or D’?Who is the E-telekeli and why is his name not said aloud?What did Lord Jestocost do, and in what language does his name mean “cruelty?”How is Scanners Live in Vain [...]
Continue reading about Concordance To Cordwainer Smith – Tony Lewis
Run by his daughter, a comprehensive guide.
5 out of 5
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/
Continue reading about The Remarkable Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith – Rosana
Online encyclopedia entry.
5 out of 5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
Variant Titles: Carola (1948) – Felix C. Forrest
Publications: Carola, (1948, Felix C. Forrest, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, vii+307pp, hc)
Unseen.
Variant Titles: Ria (1947) – Felix C. Forrest
Publications: Ria, (1947, Felix C. Forrest, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 242pp, hc) Ria, (1987, Cordwainer Smith, Jwindz, 0-9618918-0-7, $19.95, 242pp, hc)
Unseen.
Satellite Science Fiction, March 1959, (Mar 1959, Cylvia Kleinman, Renown Publications, Inc., $0.35, 68pp, Bedsheet, magazine)
Variant title of Nancy.
4 out of 5
The Rediscovery of Man, (Jun 1988, Cordwainer Smith, VGSF / Gollancz, 0-575-04165-X, £3.50, xix+377pp, pb, coll) Cover: John Avon The Rediscovery of Man, (Sep 1988, Cordwainer Smith, Gollancz, 0-575-04352-0, £11.95, xix+377pp, hc, coll) Cover: John Avon – [VERIFIED] The Rediscovery of Man, (1999, Cordwainer Smith, Millennium / Orion, 1-85798-819-1, £6.99, xix+377pp, tp, coll) Cover: Chris [...]
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Variant title of Mark Elf.
3.5 out of 5
Online story.
4 out of 5
http://freesf.blogspot.com/2007/08/war-no-81-q-cordwainer-smith.html
Online story.
3.5 out of 5
http://freesf.blogspot.com/2007/07/under-old-earth-cordwainer-smith.html
Online story.
5 out of 5
http://freesf.blogspot.com/2007/08/scanners-live-in-vain-cordwainer-smith.html
Continue reading about Scanners Live In Vain – Cordwainer Smith