Archive for December, 2008

Two Interesting Cordwainer Smith Articles

Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm  
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This must be old news to serious fans, but I am constantly amazed at all the articles that turn up about Cordwainer Smith. I discover some of them through using Google Alerts, but today’s post is about an ezine that one of the writers told me about. It’s a downloadable pdf, available at no cost:…

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A Bit Like My Father When I Travel

Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 8:40 pm  
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One thing I’ve noticed during my various trips to Mexico (where I now mostly live) is how much I have inherited my father’s outgoing curiosity about other people and what they are doing. Actually, sometimes I can be quite shy if I don’t feel that my mastery of the language is good enough to really…

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Do Cordwainer Smith Fans Read Clifford Simak?

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 8:46 pm  
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Gnod.net is a website that is an “experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. It’s a self-adapting system, living on this server and ‘talking’ to everyone who comes along. It has a literature section, and you can see the Cordwainer Smith literary map here. According to the fellow who created it, “The closer two writers…

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Paul Linebarger Reflecting on Mexico

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm  
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Here’s a letter from my father in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, dated 3 August 1964. He, my stepmother, my sister, my cousin, and another friend our age had made several trips to Saltillo’s Universidad Interamericana,  where they studied Spanish. I’m not sure who had gone on this particular trip. I had just graduated from Stanford and…

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