http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/2009-rediscovery-award.html About his science fiction and his life, run by his daughter Rosana Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/2009-rediscovery-award.html/comment-page-1#comment-5128 Mark Traub Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:35:52 +0000 http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/?p=159#comment-5128 While watching Hitchcock's "Saboteur" last Saturday night, I noticed over Bob Cumming's shoulder in a scene in a private library a familar spine..."The Face in the Abyss", the 1931 version, of which I own a copy. My father was a big fan of A. Merritt's, and this book has been in my personal library all my life. I decided to read it (I'd read the Ship of Ishtar when it was first reissued in paperback in the '70's), and just started it last night. The coincidence of Mr. Merritt's winning of the 2009 Rediscovery Award and my rediscovery of him 3 days prior to finding this web site is fascinating. I am now looking into him much more seriously. While watching Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” last Saturday night, I noticed over Bob Cumming’s shoulder in a scene in a private library a familar spine…”The Face in the Abyss”, the 1931 version, of which I own a copy. My father was a big fan of A. Merritt’s, and this book has been in my personal library all my life. I decided to read it (I’d read the Ship of Ishtar when it was first reissued in paperback in the ’70’s), and just started it last night. The coincidence of Mr. Merritt’s winning of the 2009 Rediscovery Award and my rediscovery of him 3 days prior to finding this web site is fascinating. I am now looking into him much more seriously.

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