Download or read book The Dead Lady of Clown Town written by Cordwainer Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Lady of Clown Town' is a retelling of the story of Joan of Arc. Even though humanity achieved a utopian state, people still live sterile and shallow lives. The underpeople are modified animals who look human and have human intelligence but have no rights and are treated like animals, to be used and destroyed without a doubt. But there exists one hope for the underpeople that can bring them equality.
Download or read book The Dead Lady of Clown Town written by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Dead Lady of Clown Town" by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Die tote Lady von Clowntown written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Heyne Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Wiederentdeckung der Menschheit Elaines gesamte Existenz ist ein Fehler. Der Menschenprogrammierer hat ihr den Beruf „Laientherapeut“ zugewiesen, der in gefestigten, ausgeglichenen Gesellschaften mangels Patienten völlig unnötig ist. Auf Formalhaut III entdeckt sie durch Zufall die Unterstadt, Clowntown. Sie wird von den Untermenschen bewohnt; Tieren, die wie Menschen aussehen und niedere, anstrengende Arbeiten verrichten müssen. Dort begegnet sie dem Hundemädchen H’jeanne – und die Welt gerät aus den Fugen ... Die Novelle „Die tote Lady von Clowntown“ erscheint als exklusives eBook Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von Cordwainer Smith auch in dem Sammelband „Was aus den Menschen wurde“ enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 110 Buchseiten.
Download or read book The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Bruce Shaw and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though animal stories and fables stretch back into the antiquity of ancient India, Persia, Greece and Rome, the reasons for writing them and their resonance for readers (and listeners) remain consistent to the present. This work argues that they were essential sources of amusement and instruction--and were also often profoundly unsettling. Such authors in the realm of the animal fable as Tolkien, Freud, Voltaire, Bakhtin, Cordwainer Smith, Karel Capek, Vladimir Propp, and many more are discussed.
Download or read book CLOWN TOWN An Urban Tale About an 11 Year Old Girl Who Discovers Her Town Is Not What It Seems written by Mark Brandstetter and published by Mark Brandstetter. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you wear clown makeup to live your best life ever? Would you to have everything you ever desired? Imagine a town where everyone wears clown makeup. Sounds fun, right? But what if you wanted to be just you, no makeup, no masks? Welcome to "Clown Town"! Meet Jill, a fearless girl who discovers Jack, a boy brave enough to show his real face in a town full of disguises. Together, they're ready to turn Clown Town upside down! "Clown Town" is a rollercoaster ride of fun, secrets, and surprises that will make you laugh, gasp, and cheer. It's a story about finding the magic in being yourself in a world that tries to make everyone look the same. Are you ready to join Jill and Jack on their thrilling journey? Get ready to uncover hidden secrets, revel in the crazy antics, and learn the awesome power of being YOU. If you enjoyed unraveling the mysteries of other worlds in "Alice in Wonderland," you'll love the enchanting adventure of "Clown Town." Grab your copy now before the price changes.
Download or read book The Best of Cordwainer Smith written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one ever wrote like Smith, with his special blend of intense myth-making and rich invention!"--Publishers Weekly Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. 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. In "Scanners Live in Vain" we meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine--a scanner--to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stigma placed on him and his kind, he is able to regrasp his humanity to save another. In "The Dead Lady of Clown Town" we get to know the underpeople--animals genetically altered to exist in human form, to better serve their human owners--and meet D'Joan, a dog-woman who will make readers question who is more human: the animals who simply want to be recognized as having the same right to life, or the people who created them to be inferior. In "The Ballad of Lost C'mell" the notion of love being the most important equalizer there is--as first raised in "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"--is put into action when an underperson, C'mell, falls in love with Lord Jestocost. Who is to say her love for him is not as valid as any true-born human? She might be of cat descent, but she is all woman! And in "A Planet Named Shayol" it is an underperson of bull descent, and beings so mutilated and deformed from their original human condition to be now considered demons of a hellish land, who retain and display the most humanity when Mankind commits the most inhumane action of all.
Download or read book Clown Town written by Lou Macaluso and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clown Town is true story/social Chicago history of a baby boomer's struggle with death phobia filtered through a child's perspective. The title refers to an imaginary world created by the young protagonist, Pudgie, to pacify his younger friend's curiosity about the real world of school. Pudgie's real world, however, is a horrific world of indignity, humiliation, anger, and fear. Clown Town is a utopian world of fantasy for young boys growing up in a Chicago suburb during the 1950s. The Prologue establishes the adult first-person narrator in the present tense. He is forced to reminisce about his youth when the eminent death of his mother rekindles old fears and personality quirks that had haunted his life. His journey backward leads the reader to the death of a neighborhood man, the death of Pudgie's grandfather, and the death of a schoolmate in a historic Chicago school fire of 1958. Pudgie also struggles with a volatile temper when teased about his crossed left eye. The temper threatens his existence in a "normal" school. Along the way, the narrative treats the reader to a nostalgic look at the 1950s (the music, the cars, the TV shows, the movies, the mores), a naive child's interpretation of sex, and an adult perspective of childhood adventures such as smoking, competing in sports, and participating in petty crime."
Download or read book Escape to Clown Town written by Tephra Miriam and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Space Lords Science Fiction written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1969 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Best of Cordwainer Smith written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one ever wrote like Smith, with his special blend of intense myth-making and rich invention "--Publishers Weekly Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future,
Download or read book The Rediscovery of Man written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon, from the planet Norstrilia, confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.
Download or read book The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith written by Karen L. Hellekson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical work concentrates on the science fiction writings of Paul Linebarger, who wrote under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, as well as other pseudonyms he created to reflect his different writing styles. His writings give voice to concerns about humanity and personal struggle; his ideas about love, loss, alienation, and psychic pain continue to resonate today. This work begins with a brief biographical sketch of Cordwainer Smith, linking elements of his past to his writing and focusing on his contributions to science fiction as well as his concern with humanity. Also discussed are Smith's published and unpublished novel-length non-science fiction, his revision process, the true man-underpeople dichotomy in his published and unpublished short fiction, and his only published novel-length science fiction work Norstrilia.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book We the Underpeople written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a far-flung future, planoforming ships knit together a galaxy ruled from Earth by the ruthless benevolence of the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, who presided over a utopia without death, danger-or freedom. The Underpeople, humanlike beings created from animals to do the work of utopia, had no rights, and could be disposed of at the whim of a human. But they had become more humanlike than their creators, and their leader, the cat woman C'Mell, had a plan for gaining their freedom-which made her much too dangerous a person to be permitted to live. Elsewhere in the galaxy, the planet Norstrilia had power of its own, for it was the only source of stroon, the drug which arrested aging and made humans immortal. Its inhabitants were wealthy beyond comprehension, and one of them, a boy named Rod McBan, with the help of his computer, had manipulated the galactic economy until he completely owned the planet Earth-which made him much too dangerous a person to be permitted to live. But when Rod came to Earth and joined forces with C'Mell and the Underpeople, the petrified utopia of the Instrumentality began to crack and fall apart as freedom was reborn in the galaxy. . . .
