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Cordwainer Smith | 400 pages | 29 Mar 2010 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575094246 | English | London, United Kingdom

Sure, I can say it has pages of acclaimed stories—every short story that ever wrote. After defeat, after disappointment, after ruin and reconstruction, mankind had leapt among the stars. The Rediscovery of Man Rediscovery of Man, by Cordwainer Smith. The majority of these stories take place 14, yeas into the future, and The Rediscovery of Man this day, present a The Rediscovery of Man worldview, and an astounding examination of human nature. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. 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. Cordwainer Smith is a writer like none other. These stories were written in the late 50s, early 60s, and are so intelligent and forward thinking, I'm still stunned. Underpeople do all the hard work, police is made up of robots and telepathic mind control checks that everybody is thinking happy thoughts, or they are sent for re-education. A Cordwainer Smith Panel Discussion. That said, when I said last time that I was relieved that Tiptree's radical feminism never crossed the line into open transphobia, a finger on the monkey's paw curled up and delivered me Smith's "The Tranny Menace from Beyond the Stars" "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal," about which I have absolutely nothing positive to say. CS has actually spent a fair amount of time in these two stories dedicated to "explaining" how his advanced systems of space travel work. They were so, so good. Rambling 1: Shakespeare Had It Wrong. The brain is cut from desire, and pain. So deeply lost in pleasure was he that the food, the women, the clothing, the books of his apartments were completely forgotten and neglected. The closest and most obvious comparison would be Asmiov's Foundation books, but I honestly believe that The Rediscovery of Man does the same thing better in the space of about pages. Still, these are worthy, if a bit rambling, tales. Like two of the most successful authors of the period, Robert A. That probably only describes one person, and that person has a fake name of Cordwainer Smith. But I was constantly surprised by the elegance and rhythm of the prose that, again, is not something one often The Rediscovery of Man with SF. The people were beautiful, but they felt themselves useless, and they were The Rediscovery of Man desperate without knowing it themselves. The Rediscovery of Man to the incredible wealth of this planet, every criminal and government covets the stroon and has developed a drastic means of repelling all attempts to take it by force. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale The Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer Smith's creation. This doesn't even cover the spiritual dimension some of the stories have; Smith was a Christian The Rediscovery of Man worked many spiritual themes into his stories, but some of them are as obscure and symbolical as they are in Lafferty at times. Short Stories. As with "Macbeth," it's not so much about the plot as it is the poetry. Letters from Paul, by Paul M. Technology is often cruel but necessary, and generally has bizarre side effects requiring great sacrifice from those who employ it. He was also the author of Psychological Warfarewhich is still regarded as the authoritative book in its field. Also the less-fun but sadly expected traditional 50's treatment of women as if they are another species. I am downgrading my rating of this book. They're so big that one of them blotted out the sun for a while and made the earth air smell bad! begins a new era in the of mankind : The Rediscovery of Man, as humans abandon their perfect but boring utopia in favor of a return to diversity, danger and dissimulation. Soldiers eventually arrive and end the revolution by killing all the underpeople, with the sole exception of D'joan. It makes me want to be really impressed with the story when that's how it starts, and then disappointed when it's something not very impressive, or takes too long to get there. Cue B-movie as produced by the Family Research Council. Who would have thought that someone who lived an interesting life, wrote interesting things The Lord realizes that the direction the humanity is following is wrong, and sets in motion a return to the old values. Last night I read "Himself in Anachron," another "new" story but not bad. Another crazy story last night. The action was reflex and automatic. All the stories are from his Instrumentality future h Finished reading The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith The Rediscovery of Man on the bus home. Last night I read ""the story that really put the author on the map - sort-of. Aryan teenagers shot into cold-sleep orbit by their Nazi rocket scientist papa. Original Title. Short Stories. Ballad of Lost C'Mell -Another classic "Instrumentality" story, this one centered on a Lord of the Instrumentality and a member of the Underpeople animals that have been evolved to have human-like intelligence and appearance who devise a plan to improve the rights of the Underpeople. They are arranged in chronological order within this story arc with often thousands of years in between stories. Can't do it because it's a genre book. We aren't presented with a strict timeline of what happened although those exist but are allowed to sort of look in the spaces he's coloring in and figure out where the lines are. Banks, Ursula K. Then I got to the story "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal" which The Rediscovery of Man the dubious honor of being the most hateful piece of fiction I have ever read. Illustrated Bibliography, by Mike Bennett. Pierce, a noted authority on Smith's work. Delany and the The Rediscovery of Man adopting the pen name "Cordwainer The Rediscovery of Man as a tribute. I cannot say more about how pleased I The Rediscovery of Man to be in the company of his entire life's work. Had the ancient calendar continued, this would have been AD 13, Welles' "The Island of Dr. Everybody was, especially the young people. All sorts of made-up words, based on Chinese, I think. The What is quite impressive here. Retrospective short story collections usually tend to draw out the repetitive qualities in an author's work, but that's particularly true here, and the stylistic quirks and the growing preoccupation with Christian imagery kept pushing me away rather than draw me in. I have an enormous pile of fiction on the To-Read pile but I can't figure out which one to go with - Mieville? Cordwainer Smith at Alibris. Every story stands alone but adds a thread to the tapestry of his Instrumentality of Mankind universe. Did you ever see anybody who had his soul pulled out? It makes "Scanners Live in Vain" seem like one of those small books with the chewy covers that babies like in comparison. The The Rediscovery of Man, his pinlighters sitting beside him, took the ship from one compression to another, leaping hotly and frantically through space, sometimes one light-year, sometimes a hundred light-years, jump, jump, jump, jump until the ship, the light touches of the captain's mind guiding it, passed the perils of millions upon millions of worlds, came The Rediscovery of Man at its appointed destination, and settled as lightly as one feather resting The Rediscovery of Man others, settled into an embroidered and decorated countryside where the passengers could move as easily away from their journey as if they had done nothing more The Rediscovery of Man pass an afternoon in a The Rediscovery of Man old house by the side of a river. Chronological Book List.