The Science Fiction Of Cordwainer Smith

Author : Karen L. Hellekson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786450350

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The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith by Karen L. Hellekson Pdf

This critical work concentrates on the science fiction writings of Paul Linebarger, who wrote under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, as well as other pseudonyms he created to reflect his different writing styles. His writings give voice to concerns about humanity and personal struggle; his ideas about love, loss, alienation, and psychic pain continue to resonate today. This work begins with a brief biographical sketch of Cordwainer Smith, linking elements of his past to his writing and focusing on his contributions to science fiction as well as his concern with humanity. Also discussed are Smith's published and unpublished novel-length non-science fiction, his revision process, the true man-underpeople dichotomy in his published and unpublished short fiction, and his only published novel-length science fiction work Norstrilia.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575108615

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The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon, from the planet Norstrilia, confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : CAEZIK SF & Fantasy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647100976

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Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

Welcome to Old North Australia, or Norstrilia, the only planet that has "stroon," a substance that indefinitely delays aging in humans. Stroon is cultivated from huge, deformed sheep farmed by the wealthiest estate owners to ever exist in all of humanity's existence.Rod McBan is the last of one of the oldest and most honorable families on Norstrilia. But he himself has shortcomings that would normally have led to his death under the strict laws governing population control on a planet where immortality is cheap and imperfect citizens are ruthlessly "culled" to make way for more productive members of society.But even McBan's vaunted stature in the society is not enough to save him from the basest of human emotions-jealousy- as the enmity of a former friend forces him to escape to Earth, where McBan's unprecedented fortune quickly makes him a magnet for all manner of crooks and revolutionaries.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612423604

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The Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

"No one ever wrote like Smith, with his special blend of intense myth-making and rich invention!"--Publishers Weekly Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. This brilliant collection, often cited as the first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human. In "Scanners Live in Vain" we meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine--a scanner--to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stigma placed on him and his kind, he is able to regrasp his humanity to save another. In "The Dead Lady of Clown Town" we get to know the underpeople--animals genetically altered to exist in human form, to better serve their human owners--and meet D'Joan, a dog-woman who will make readers question who is more human: the animals who simply want to be recognized as having the same right to life, or the people who created them to be inferior. In "The Ballad of Lost C'mell" the notion of love being the most important equalizer there is--as first raised in "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"--is put into action when an underperson, C'mell, falls in love with Lord Jestocost. Who is to say her love for him is not as valid as any true-born human? She might be of cat descent, but she is all woman! And in "A Planet Named Shayol" it is an underperson of bull descent, and beings so mutilated and deformed from their original human condition to be now considered demons of a hellish land, who retain and display the most humanity when Mankind commits the most inhumane action of all.

Author : Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465583703

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The Game of Rat and Dragon by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger Pdf

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547096894

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On the Storm Planet by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

On the Storm Planet' is a science fiction novel by Cordwainer Smith. It is his second story featuring Casher O'Neill, who the Administrator of the planet Henriada has ordered to kill a girl. O'Neill is sent from Henriada to his homeworld of Mizzer and gets badly sunburned, although his mental capabilities recover more or less unimpaired. A must-read for sci-fi lovers.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018747092

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The Planet Buyer by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

A boy considered to be defective may be executed to avoid overpopulation on his planet. He uses an ancient computer to come up with a plan to become wealthy, then uses the wealth to buy planet Earth.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Baen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451638299

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When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

Massive collection of visionary science fiction set in a future of advanced superscience of epic scope by a legendary SF master: part two of the collected works of Cordwainer Smith begun with We the Underpeople. A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part human and part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light, but must defend themselves against the malevolent, mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars. Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality, who ruled Earth and its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence, suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man, when the strange, lost concept of freedom was reborn....An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction, praised by readers, critics, and major writers in the field.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UOM:39015020750843

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You Will Never be the Same by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

Author : Anthony R. Lewis,Tony Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 1886778256

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Concordance to Cordwainer Smith by Anthony R. Lewis,Tony Lewis Pdf

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547162865

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On the Gem Planet by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

"On the Gem Planet " is a gripping science fiction story featuring Casher O'Neill, a traveller among the planets, hungry for justice. On his quest for justice against the dictator now running his world, the first stop in the search for money and weapons is on the gem planet.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547162988

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Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

"Scanners Live in Vain" is an incredible science fiction set in the distant future, when traveling to space has become routine. However, to resist the unexplained pain of space, humans are converted into "scanners," so they don't have any senses except the ability to see and hear. This short work showcases Cordwainer Smith's vision of the future and its authorities.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781557421203

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Scanners and Others by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

This volume collects three of Cordwainer Smith's finest tales: "Scanners Live in Vain," "The Game of Rat and Dragon," and "Mark Elf." Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym used by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913-1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller Atomsk), "Anthony Bearden" (for his poetry) and "Felix C. Forrest" (for the novels Ria and Carola). "Scanners Live in Vain" was Linebarger's first published SF story as an adult (his short story "War No. 81-Q," which he wrote at age 15 was published in his high school magazine), and the first appearance of the Cordwainer Smith pen name. It was written in 1945, and had been rejected by a number of magazines before its acceptance and publication in Fantasy Book in 1950. It was in that obscure magazine that it was noticed by SF writer Frederik Pohl who, impressed with the story's powerful imagery and style, subsequently re-published it in 1952 in the more widely read anthology Beyond the End of Time.

Author : Cordwainer Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547096719

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The Store Of Heart's Desire by Cordwainer Smith Pdf

The Store Of Heart's Desire' is a gripping story of planet Norstrilia. It is a semi-arid planet where an immortality drug called stroon is harvested from huge, virus-infected sheep, weighing more than 100 tons. Norstrilians were nominally the wealthiest people in the galaxy and protected their immensely valuable stroon with advanced weapons. Yet, high taxes ensured that everyone on the planet lived a rural life, like the farmers of old Australia, to keep the Norstrilians tough.

Author : Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338043108

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The Dead Lady of Clown Town by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger Pdf

"The Dead Lady of Clown Town" by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.