Cordwainer Smith wrote wonderful (if idosyncratic) short stories.
Unfortunately there are far too few of them. His stories have a romantic,
folk-tale quality that I can occasionaly find in the very best juvenile
fantsy, but I've never seen matched in science fiction. "The Ballad of
Lost C'Mell", "The Lady Who Sailed _The Soul_", "Scanners Live In Vain",
"The Game of Rat and Dragon", "A Planet Named Shayol", among others, are
all stories to conjure by. Really, really, *really* recommended. One of
my all time favorites.
[C] == Short Story Collection.
aka == Also known by this other title.
rev == revision of an older title
/John
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Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony [,Ph.D.] [U.S.A., 7/11/1913-8/6/1966]
[as Cordwainer Smith]
Norstrilia [1975] [rev. of the following two, the original version
was as one book which was mangled by editors]
The Planet Buyer [1964]
The Underpeople [1968]
You Will Never Be the Same [1963] [C]
Space Lords [1965] [C]
Quest of the Three Worlds [1966] [C]
Under Old Earth [1970] [C]
Stardreamer [1971] [C]
The Best of Cordwainer Smith [1975] [C] [aka "The Rediscovery of Man"]
The Instrumentality of Mankind [1979] [C]
