Cordwainer Smith (ology)

Interior illustration for the story :- 4 out of 5 http://www.collectorshowcase.fr/images2/intgy_5510.jpg

‘Story Cycles of Future History: Cordwainer Smith’s Instrumentality of Mankind’, in Yearbook of English Studies 31 (2001), pp.133-143. The f...

A site with a few quotes and links, and this :- "Unreasonable Books will be publishing an original art and prose book, entitled Stroon,...

Link to a picture of the author. 4 out of 5 http://www.noosfere.org/images/auteurs/Smith-Cordwainer.jpg

A German bibliography. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.epilog.de/PersData/S/Smith_Cordwainer_1913/

A French site. 4.5 out of 5 http://www.noosfere.org/icarus/livres/auteur.asp?numauteur=534

"Strangeness, said John Gardner, is the one thing in fiction that cannot be faked. Strangeness is, famously, the defining characteristi...

"The science-fiction writings of Cordwainer Smith consist of some twenty-odd short stories and two novels, which chart the history of a...

On being a slow thickie :- "Cordwainer Smith As I've mentioned elsewhere, I tend to be something of a late adopter, when it comes t...

Introduction to the story from The Ascent of Wonder " Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym of Paul Linebarger, a mysterious and colorful ...

"There is a rosy gloom in the stories of Cordwainer Smith. They take place in a candy apple universe where the candy is sometimes hard...

Has done an audio version of the Game of Rat and Dragon. 4 out of 5

A couple of magazine pieces scanned here:- 4 out of 5 http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/virgil_finlay.htm

Some great stuff there. Going to get that Mother Hitton piece sometime in some format. 5 out of 5 http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/craig-moo...

"Pierre Lacombe was the illustrator of the very first, 3-volume French hardcover edition of INSTRUMENTALITY published by Editions Opta ...

A lot of computer artwork from different stories. 4 out of 5 http://www.fourth-millennium.net/cordwainer-vr/cs-index.html

An article about the author. 4 out of 5 http://templetongate.tripod.com/csmith.htm

In World weavers: globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution By Kin-yuen Wong, Gary Westfahl, Amy Kit-sze Chan Unseen.

Named after the man. Well worth looking up and seeing if you have read anything by the authors named. Includes some of the greats. 5 out o...

"Paul M.A. Linebarger was a military expert in Far Eastern politics and in psychological warfare, active in many countries during World...

Journal title FOUNDATION -DAGENHAM- Bibliographic details 2000, ISSU 78, pages 44-57 Unseen.

Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3, Japanese Science Fiction (Nov., 2002), p. 529 Short note on Japanese translations and work. 3 out o...

Science-Fiction Studies, 1984, 1J, 270-279 A biographical highly detailed overview. "The eye destroyed in childhood had been replaced b...

In Space and beyond: the frontier theme in science fiction By Gary Westfahl Unseen.

Science Fiction 10 (1982) Unseen.

Essay in Science Fiction Studies, July 2001. "Smith's stories are often framed as fragmentary tales of long-ago events. "The D...

[Note: This is a partial working summary, based in large part on Paul Linebarger's own autobiographical lists. I will add to it and furt...

A brief list. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/csfaq.html

"There are two major archives of the papers of Paul M. A. Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith). The bulk of his fiction manuscripts, inclu...

Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 8: Twentieth Century American Science-Fiction Writers, part 2, published by the Gale Research Company...

Published in a book edited by Tom Clareson, Voices for the Future, volume 3 (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1984) Unseen.

In Science-Fiction Studies, in 1977 "All three themes are evident in the short and widely anthologized story "The Game of Rat and ...

"Discovering the writings of Corwainer Smith in the early 1970's was a life-changing revelation. At that time, neither his one nove...

A remembrance article by his daughter, Rosana. "I have quite a few memories of his writing science fiction. It was fun for him, somethi...

Short bio from a fanzine. 2.5 out of 5 http://fanac.org/fanzines/Speculation/Speculation33-02.gif

"I'll use this space to note contributions to the scholarly literature I'm most familiar with: what I'll call the scholarly...

"Though I have yet to come across solid documentary evidence, I think the circumstantial evidence (including but extending well beyond ...

"Norstrilia: Readers often pronounce the name of this planet with a short "i" in the middle, but you should keep in mind that...

"It’s as if I’d always lived part of my dream life—these memories of the future—in the strange, terrible universe of the Instrumentalit...

"Major, United States Army Colonel, United States Army Reserve Science Fiction Writer: Cordwainer Smith" http://www.arlingtoncemet...

"And you know what? Most of these — check that, all of these — pale beside the finest writer the field has ever seen, the one against w...

"An anthology of articles about Cordwainer Smith in a 1975 booklet, Exploring Cordwainer Smith, edited and published by Andrew Porter h...

"The paperback book is 158 pages long: that's 104 pages of the text itself, followed by a glossary of CS terms, a bibliography, a l...

Publisher of the two volume paperback complete SF works. 5 out of 5 http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=csmith

Publisher of the two volume paperback complete SF works. 5 out of 5 http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=csmith

Publication of a two-volume set of his complete SF work. 5 out of 5 http://www.webscription.net/s-95-cordwainer-smith.aspx

"Hundreds of entries, arranged alphabetically, answer such questions as: What characters, besides the famous girlygirl C'Mell and t...

Run by his daughter, a comprehensive guide. 5 out of 5 http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/

Online encyclopedia entry. 5 out of 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

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