Free fiction: some online works of Cordwainer Smith

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Couple of probably good stories of Cordwainer Smith

In the review of Smith's "The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith", Scott Shaffer at SF Signal lists a couple of stories he likes - sometimes with download links.

I've only read "Scanners Live in Vain" from those explicitly listed - it's very famous, though it didn't work for me.

Related: Stories of Cordwainer Smith; "best of" lists.

Key attributes of Cordwainer Smith's fiction

Snipped from a discussion at rasfw:

Anthony Nance.
'- One of the first to have a long future history
- One of the first to "uplift" animals (though he didn't call it that)
- One of the first to use/insert psychology and psychological ideas

In addition, he wrote some very weird/unusual ideas, striking images, new words - he's not often cited as influencing the New Wave, but his ideas and imagery certainly weakened some walls and boundaries that the New Wave pushed through.'

Mike Schilling.
"a disinterest in scientific plausibility and ideas and plots that make more sense emotionally than rationally.

Those also reappeared in the New Wave."

Michael Grosberg.
"I think he was one of the first to tell SF stories as if they were legends, with a weird fairy-tale logic. His characters are strange, his worlds phantasmagorical and hallucinogenic. He understood the fun and attraction of strangeness for its own sake. His works were also very spiritual in some sense."

Related: Stories of Cordwainer Smith.

Free fiction: Mike Resnick, Cordwainer Smith

1. Resnick's Hugo 2009 short story nominee "Article of Faith" (download).
2. Cordwainer Smith links some of his online stories at Webscription from collection When the People Fell.
   
   I'd linked all of these & a couple of more in the past.
   
   Of the lot, 2 are very famous: "No, No, Not Rogov!", & "Scanners Live in Vain".

[Both via SF Signal]

Free fiction: Isaac Asimov, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey Landis

These are 2 or 3 months old links that were lost in my bookmarks.

Via Free Speculative Fiction Online: 2 stories from Gregory Benford (Ed)'s "The New Hugo Winners-Volume IV" at Webscription:

1. Geoffrey A Landis' "A Walk In The Sun"; download.
2. Isaac Asimov's "Gold"; download; Analog, September 1991

Two stories from Cordwainer Smith's collection "We the Underpeople" (ed Hank Davis) at Webscription:

1. "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"; download; Galaxy, August 1964
2. "Under Old Earth"; download; Galaxy, February 1966.

** Cordwainer Smith's "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" (novelette, science fiction)

A political story - probably modeled after the slavery years in the US, but told symbolically. A society where some have normal citizen rights; others are treated as disposable animals. A man from privileged group helps the underprivileged fight for their civil liberties.

Collected in.

1. Ben Bova (Ed)'s "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A".
2. Isaac Asimov & Martin H Greenberg (Eds)' "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 24 (1962)".
   

Fact sheet.

First published: Galaxy, October 1962.
Rating: B

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** Cordwainer Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain" (short story, science fiction, free)

A much imitated story where some men have been brainwashed to forgo their lives for the good of society. They've been surgically modified to kill their normal senses, & turn them into ruthless machines used in space. One of their kind will eventually help them get their lives back.

Collected in.

1. Robert Silverberg (Ed)'s "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964".
   

Fact sheet.

First published: Fantasy Book magazine, Vol 1, No 6 ( January 1950).
Rating: C
Download full text from Webscription.

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