Do you have favorite quotes from Cordwainer Smith / Paul Linebarger? If so, do post them and where they are from, in the comments. When I was designing some t-shirts for the site, I re-read The Dead Lady of Clown Town online, and the link takes you to where you can do that at no [...]
I do this website in the hopes of bringing the Cordwainer Smith work to more people. With the holidays soon to be upon us, here are three ways that you too can spread the word, while shopping or without spending anything. Of course you can do these at any time of year! 1. Give a [...]
Here’s an email I received this week from Cordwainer Smith artist Corby Waste, reprinted with his permission: Well, well, well, here’s something REALLY amazing – it seems that the Hubble Space Telescope has taken it’s first picture of a planet orbiting another star. Out of all the stars in the universe it happened to photograph [...]
I had never given a thought to my father’s effect on archaeology until I received this email from Dr. Alasdair Brooks, an archaeologist working in Australia [a.brooksATlatrobe.edu.au AFTER YOU REPLACE AT WITH @]. He wrote: You might be interested in an academic paper that I’ve written about your father’s work…The premise of the paper is [...]
On July 11 of this year, I was deep into the total makeover of cordwainer-smith.com and it wasn’t till well into the morning that I did a bit of math and realized that since my father was born in 1913, that was 95 years ago. Since he died so young, in his 50s,