Cordwainer Smith

Nearer to home is Paul Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith, whose Instrumentality stories took decades to tell.

Imagination James Killus 2007

The Planet Buyer by Cordwainer Smith, which is billed as “Something New in Science-Fiction!”

Sentences for the word pithy maryrobinette 2006

Ted Chiang on Paul Linebarger aka Cordwainer Smith over at WithBoots.

Happy Halloween Hangovers 2007

Ted Chiang on Paul Linebarger aka Cordwainer Smith over at WithBoots.

Happy Halloween Hangovers 2007

Ted Chiang on Paul Linebarger aka Cordwainer Smith over at WithBoots.

October 2007 2007

There's some great stories in there - Day Million, The Light of Other Days - and one or two others I can't help but find terribly creaky and old-fashioned, such as Cordwainer Smith's Scanners Live in Vain What may not have helped in terms of reading the latter, much of which is set during a secret meeting of 'scanners' or interstellar pilots, is that I had a hard time not picturing it in the form of the Ku Klux Klan musical sequence in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?

Recommendations and Leith 2010

There's some great stories in there - Day Million, The Light of Other Days - and one or two others I can't help but find terribly creaky and old-fashioned, such as Cordwainer Smith's Scanners Live in Vain What may not have helped in terms of reading the latter, much of which is set during a secret meeting of 'scanners' or interstellar pilots, is that I had a hard time not picturing it in the form of the Ku Klux Klan musical sequence in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?

Archive 2010-06-01 2010

Readers of science fiction will recognize multiple influences on this excellent novel: Cordwainer Smith, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, China Mieville and even, possibly, Margaret Atwood, who proffers a similar vision of post-apocalyptic want, fanaticism and gene-manipulation in "Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood."

Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl," winner of the Nebula Award 2010

A multitude of thanks, by the way, for steering me to Cordwainer Smith.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

However, they also have a keen interest in SF history, as shown by this volume, and them republishing Cordwainer Smith, A.

Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010