Our last agent, Ralph Vicinanza, died unexpectedly about a year and a half ago. With the help of Vince Gerardis, our film agent, we’ve gotten by and just recently he helped us connect with Eleanor Wood of Spectrum Literary Agency. That link takes you to the agency’s website, where you can see, among other things,…
Update on Our Agents
New Contact Information for Our Agents
People who want to contact us regarding the rights to publishing Cordwainer Smith stories, making films or other media, etc. — we now have a new email address for one of our agents. I never handle this sort of thing myself. You can find it at: http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/contact.htm Please don’t contact me; I just forward thing…
Katherine MacLean wins the 2011 Rediscovery Award
For the first time, the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award has gone to a living writer. You can see her chatting on youtube! See the page on my main site: Katherine MacLean to find out more.
Blog post about Cordwainer Smith in German
A few days ago Stefan Manske wrote to me. As Random House (Heyne-Verlag) published all IoM-Stories as \”Was aus den Menschen wurde\” in Germany, he was going to do a blog post on the the homepage of the Science Fiction Club Germany, founded in 1955. He asked if he could use an illustration from here….
Laminated Rat Brains
Thanks to CS scholar for this find… scroll down a ways: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10372708-23.html
Damien Broderick’s New Story and Cordwainer Smith Comments
A while back, I had some correspondance with Damien Broderick, often called the dean of Australian science fiction, and he is kindly allowing me to post this article which includes interesting CS comments. You can read The Ruined Queen of Harvest World online here. — Rosana An Introduction to “The Ruined Queen of Harvest World”…
2009 Rediscovery Award Goes to A. Merritt
The annual Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award went to A. Merritt this year. The link takes you to the page where I describe what the award is. It is given every summer at Readercon. Don’t know much about A. Merritt? Or like me, know nothing of him? Ah, that’s probably part of why our panel of…
How to Keep Up with Cordwainer Smith Around the Internet
Here’s how I keep up with Cordwainer Smith blogging and other news: I have google alerts that come into my email, one set for Cordwainer Smith and another set for Paul Linebarger. Much of what I get this way isn’t very interesting, but there are often fascinating bits. Sometimes I in turn blog about those…
I Haven’t Disappeared to Any Other Galaxy
Since I haven’t posted for a while, I just wanted to let my regular readers know that I’m fine, just very busy with some other websites, not to mention life. I expect to write less often here. But I’ve got some good tidbits on my to-do list. Rosana
You Can Read Several Cordwainer Smith Science Fiction Stories Online Free
There is an ebook edition of Cordwainer Smith’s stories and the publisher (with our agent’s permission) put several of the stories online where you can read them free. If you have never read Cordwainer Smith, this is an easy way to get started. If you are a fan already, you might like to refresh your…
Cordwainer Smith on Top 100 or Other Top Lists?
Sometimes my Google Alerts show me places where Cordwainer Smith or his works are on some sort of “best” science fiction list. I’m putting down the ones I know of, and hope that readers will add to this over time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here’s one where Norstrilia is #46 on a list of the best 100 science…