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The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
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The third story in this volume takes place 16,000 years in the future. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia. These are futuristic tales told as myth, as ... »
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Norstrilia
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Like just about all of his other work, this, Smith's only sf novel, is both unique and highly lyrical. Set within his universe of the Instrumentality of Mankind, it's the story of Rod McBan, 16 year-old heir to his family fortune, which is based on the stroon (a drug that provides near-immortality) his family farm produces from genetically modified gia... »
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When the People Fell
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Set centuries in the future, Cordwainer Smith's WHEN THE PEOPLE FELL tells of a new dark age on Earth, following global war, and then a civilization of colonists who arise to journey to the stars. These colonists use ships with big sails, cruising on waves of starlight and journeying faster than light - and fight against mind-eating creatures who lurk ... »
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We the Underpeople
Cordwainer Smith is the Leonardo De Vinccii of the sience fiction writers.
It's a pure pleasure to read his books.
It is a pitty that he wrote... »
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The Best of Cordwainer Smith
As a second generation science fiction fan, I have happily read SF spread over decades. Time and time again I return to my slim volume of Cordwainer Smith... »
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The Instrumentality of Mankind
As I have written in a previous review, Cordwainer Smith will remain in the memory of all who read his books for the rest of their lives. His characters ... »
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