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 Also discussed are Smith's published and unpublished novel-length non-science fiction, his revision process, the true man-underpeople dichotomy in his published and unpublished short fiction, and his only published novel-length science fiction work Norstrilia.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 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 Norstrilia written by Cordwainer Smith and published by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Old North Australia, or Norstrilia, the only planet that has "stroon," a substance that indefinitely delays aging in humans. Stroon is cultivated from huge, deformed sheep farmed by the wealthiest estate owners to ever exist in all of humanity's existence.Rod McBan is the last of one of the oldest and most honorable families on Norstrilia. But he himself has shortcomings that would normally have led to his death under the strict laws governing population control on a planet where immortality is cheap and imperfect citizens are ruthlessly "culled" to make way for more productive members of society.But even McBan's vaunted stature in the society is not enough to save him from the basest of human emotions-jealousy- as the enmity of a former friend forces him to escape to Earth, where McBan's unprecedented fortune quickly makes him a magnet for all manner of crooks and revolutionaries.
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 The Game of Rat and Dragon written by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Storm Planet written by Cordwainer Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Storm Planet' is a science fiction novel by Cordwainer Smith. It is his second story featuring Casher O'Neill, who the Administrator of the planet Henriada has ordered to kill a girl. O'Neill is sent from Henriada to his homeworld of Mizzer and gets badly sunburned, although his mental capabilities recover more or less unimpaired. A must-read for sci-fi lovers.
Download or read book When the People Fell written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Baen. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massive collection of visionary science fiction set in a future of advanced superscience of epic scope by a legendary SF master: part two of the collected works of Cordwainer Smith begun with We the Underpeople. A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part human and part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light, but must defend themselves against the malevolent, mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars. Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality, who ruled Earth and its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence, suffocating the human spirit for millennia—until the time of the Rediscovery of Man, when the strange, lost concept of freedom was reborn....An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction, praised by readers, critics, and major writers in the field.
Download or read book You Will Never be the Same written by Cordwainer Smith and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Store Of Heart s Desire written by Cordwainer Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Store Of Heart's Desire' is a gripping story of planet Norstrilia. It is a semi-arid planet where an immortality drug called stroon is harvested from huge, virus-infected sheep, weighing more than 100 tons. Norstrilians were nominally the wealthiest people in the galaxy and protected their immensely valuable stroon with advanced weapons. Yet, high taxes ensured that everyone on the planet lived a rural life, like the farmers of old Australia, to keep the Norstrilians tough.
Download or read book On the Gem Planet written by Cordwainer Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Gem Planet " is a gripping science fiction story featuring Casher O'Neill, a traveller among the planets, hungry for justice. On his quest for justice against the dictator now running his world, the first stop in the search for money and weapons is on the gem planet.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two A written by Robert Silverberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries and marvels of the science fiction world are brought to life in this compilation of stories representing the work of major authors in this field.
Download or read book Quest of the Three Worlds written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gem Planet, the Storm Planet, the Sand Planet . . . one of these three marvel worlds held the secret Casher O'Neill sought. Casher had wandered the inhabited galaxy seeking justice, seeking the cosmic power that would enable him to return to his home world and overthrow its usurper. But in the search he found much more than he had sought, for there were things more incredible among the stars than he had dreamed of.
Download or read book Scanners Live in Vain written by Cordwainer Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scanners Live in Vain" is an incredible science fiction set in the distant future, when traveling to space has become routine. However, to resist the unexplained pain of space, humans are converted into "scanners," so they don't have any senses except the ability to see and hear. This short work showcases Cordwainer Smith's vision of the future and its authorities.
Download or read book The Planet Buyer written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy considered to be defective may be executed to avoid overpopulation on his planet. He uses an ancient computer to come up with a plan to become wealthy, then uses the wealth to buy planet Earth.
Download or read book Concordance to Cordwainer Smith written by Anthony R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We the Underpeople written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Baen. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 0 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. . . .
Download or read book Norstrilia written by Cordwainer Smith and published by Nesfa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only novel Cordwainer Smith ever wrote during his distinguished career. It tells the story of a boy form the planet Old North Australia (where rich, simple farmers grow the immortality drug Stroon), how he bought Old Earth, and how his visit to Earth changed both him and Earth itself. "Vividly drawn and wonderfully suggestive...confirms that Cordwainer Smith was one of science fiction's most original writers." -- "Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels" "Better than any writer we've yet seen, Smith represents the sense of awe and wonder that is the heart of science fiction." -- Scott Edelman, "Science Fiction Age"
