FREETHE REDISCOVERY OF MAN EBOOK Cordwainer Smith | 400 pages | 29 Mar 2010 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575094246 | English | London, United Kingdom The Rediscovery of Man, by Cordwainer Smith I can't tell you what this book is like. Sure, I can say it has pages of acclaimed stories—every short story that Cordwainer Smith ever wrote. I can say that the devoted people at the New England Science Fiction Association outdid themselves in creating the most accurate texts possible. They also did this with the companion volume Norstriliathe only full-length science fiction novel that Cordwainer Smith wrote. But still So I'm going to let my father himself introduce his own book, by quoting The Rediscovery of Man beginnings of some of the stories. If that makes you want to The Rediscovery of Man more, you can get The Rediscovery of Man quickly from a variety of places online No, No, Not Rogov! War No. Please note: There is a British paperback with the identical title The Rediscovery of Man which is available at the British Amazon, but it is a reprint The Rediscovery of Man the old Ballentine paperback Best of Cordwainer Smithand it only contains a dozen stories. That golden shape on the golden steps shook and fluttered like a bird gone mad—like a bird imbued with an intellect and a soul, and, nevertheless, driven mad by ecstasies and terrors beyond human understanding—ecstasies drawn momentarily down into reality by the consummation of superlative art. A thousand worlds watched. Had the ancient calendar continued, this would have been AD 13, After defeat, after disappointment, after ruin and reconstruction, mankind had leapt among the stars. Martel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger. He stamped across the room by judgment, not by sight. When he saw the table hit the floor, and could tell by the expression on Luci's face that the table must have made a loud crash, he looked down to see if his leg were broken. It was not. Scanner to the core, he had to scan himself. The action was reflex and automatic. The Rediscovery of Man inventory included his legs, abdomen, Chestbox of instruments, hands, arms, face, and back with the mirror. Only then did Martel go back to being angry. He talked with his voice, even though he knew that his wife hated its blare and preferred to have him write. I have to cranch. It's my worry, isn't it? There were the Douglas-Oyang planets, which circled their sun in a single cluster, riding around and around the same orbit unlike any other planets known. There were the gentlemen-suicides back on Earth, who gambled their lives—even more horribly, gambled sometimes for things worse than their lives—against different kinds of geophysics which The Rediscovery of Man men had never experienced. There were The Rediscovery of Man who fell in love with such men, however stark and dreadful their personal fates might be. There was the Instrumentality, with its unceasing labor to keep man man. And there were the citizens who walked in the boulevards before the Rediscovery of Man. The citizens were happy. They had to be happy. The Rediscovery of Man they were found sad, they were calmed and drugged and changed until they were happy again. This story concerns three of them: the gambler who took the name Sun-boy, who dared to go down to the Gebiet, who confronted himself before he died; the girl Santuna, who was fulfilled in a thousand ways before she died; and the Lord Sto Odin, a most ancient of days, who knew it all and never dreamed of preventing any of it. The Rediscovery of Man runs through this story. The soft sweet music of the Earth government and the Instrumentality, bland as honey and sickening in the end. The wild illegal pulsations of the Gebiet, where most men were forbidden to enter. Worst of all, the crazy fugues and improper melodies of the Bezirk, closed to men for fifty-seven centuries—opened by accident, found, trespassed in! And with it our story begins. We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past. I myself was the first man to put a postage stamp on a letter, after fourteen thousand years. I took Virginia to hear the first piano recital. We watched at the eye-machine when cholera was released in Tasmania, and saw the Tasmanians dancing in the streets, now that they did not have to be protected any more. Everywhere, The Rediscovery of Man became exciting. Everywhere, men and women worked with a wild will to build a more imperfect world. You can often find used copies of the Rediscovery of Man at alibris. For other countries with eBay, see The Rediscovery of Man right sidebar. Of course, you can buy it directly from the publisher, NESFAbut they do state on their website that you need to allow several weeks for delivery. They are a volunteer organization. I used to buy from them wholesale and sell directly from this website, and my experience was that it often did take a good while to get orders. If you click through on the links I provide to Amazon and other vendors, and if you make a purchase, in most cases I receive compensation. Click on the t-shirts to see all our Cordwainer Smith t-shirt designs:. 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The third story in this volume takes place 16, 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 legend, as a history of a The Rediscovery of Man The third story in this volume takes place 16, years in the future. These are futuristic tales told as myth, as legend, as a history of a distant and decayed The Rediscovery of Man. Written in an unadorned The Rediscovery of Man reminiscent The Rediscovery of Man James Tiptree Jr. In Smith's tales, space travel takes a horrendous toll on those who pilot the ships through the void. After reaching perfection, the lack of strife stifles humanity to a point of decay and stagnation; the Instrumentality of The Rediscovery of Man arises in order to stir things up. Many The Rediscovery of Man describe moral dilemmas involving the humanity of the Underpeople, beings evolved from animals into humanlike forms. Serious SF fans should The Rediscovery of Man pass up the chance to experience Cordwainer Smith's complex, distinctive vision of the far The Rediscovery of Man. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Instrumentality of Mankind. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Rediscovery of Manplease sign up. Be the The Rediscovery of Man to ask a question about The Rediscovery of Man. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Feb 06, George rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi. Who would have thought that someone who lived an interesting life, wrote interesting things Hmm Anyways Cordwainer Smith created a fascinating world with an immense future and past history, but unlike Stapledon who told his history through cold hearted academic style, he told it through its myth, legends and fairy tales, sometimes "corrected" for the The Rediscovery of Man history.