Feral Historian on Cordwainer Smith's "Rediscovery of Man" / "The Instrumentality of Man"
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Ah, this quote immediately reminded me of this:
@skinnylatte He was with a lot of other things a marine biologist as far as i can renember. Cordwainer Smith
I finally got around to reading some Cordwainer Smith!
Just 3 stories (Project Gutenberg via Standard Ebooks), but they include "Scanners Live in Vain."
Review: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/cordwainer-smith-short-fiction/
Virgil Finlay illustrates A Planet Named Shayol by Cordwainer Smith, Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1961. #FinlayFriday
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“Which do you prefer?” said the skin technician. “A great deal of pain or a couple of hour’s unconsciousness?”
“Why should I want pain?” said Mercer.
“Some specimens do,” said the technician, “by the time they arrive here. I suppose it depends on what people have done to them before they got here.”
A couple of short story recommendations for you from writer "Cordwainer Smith".
The Game of Rat and Dragon
The Crime and The Glory of Commander Suzdal
(should be able to find pdf's of them easily)
A conversation about science fiction author Cordwainer Smith, real name Paul M. A. Linebarger, author of the award-winning novella "Scanners Live in Vain", and the US Army's favorite Cold War textbook, "Psychological Warfare".
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A man will do anything to reunite with his beloved—including what was thought physically impossible. It's "Drunkboat" by Cordwainer Smith, from the October 1963 issue of Amazing Stories!
https://sffremembrance.com/2024/06/06/short-story-review-drunkboat-by-cordwainer-smith/
#sciencefiction #cordwainersmith
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