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The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith

The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith Cordwainer Smith ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 671
Publisher: New England Science Fiction Association, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780915368563

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. Mann, ed., The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), pp. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith On the He's written a lot of fantasy but also some brilliant SF short fiction stories (e.g., Sandkings, In the House of the Worm, Bitterbloom). Perhaps the first writer of what would eventually be called as “new weird”, Smith became known for writing vivid and unusual science fiction. I don't often play these meme games but since none of the other female SciBlings have jumped on the bandwagon, and I've read at least as much science fiction as some of the other Scibs in the game (PZ, Mark, Afrensis, Orac, Joseph, Bora, and John), I just had to join in. I picked up Cordwainer Smith's The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia last month, additions to my space opera reading list. Cordwainer Smith's science fiction (with the exception of a handful of stories, included in When the People Fell) takes place in an interconnected future history ranging from the present day to roughly A.D. On Friday, having just And until Friday, I'd never read a word of his fiction. [3] Pierce, John J., 'Introduction' in James A. We are very fortunate in the case of Cordwainer Smith to have his fiction re-issued in two volumes by Baen Books: We the Underpeople and When the People Fell, the latter volume being the subject of this present review. The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award is intended to showcase once important but largely forgotten science fiction/fantasy writers, who've often slipped out of print.