Cordwainer Smith Blog

I stay in email and phone contact with my cousin Helen, daughter of my father’s brother Wentworth. She wrote me this:

By Steve Davidson I had to skip last week’s entry due to time pressures and promised that I’d be taking a look at Norstrilia this week after having just re-read it. I’m still pressed for time but I dared not skip another post here; I’ve been stealing bits and pieces of time here and there [...]

Thanks to new guest blogger Jim Black for today’s article which first appeared on his website. He says: My interest in science fiction began in the early 70s when I read a copy of Del Rey’s The Runaway Robot.  Little did I know that it would be the start of a life time of reading [...]

by Steve Davidson, The Crotchety Old Fan No, that’s not a misspelling.  I’ve just re-read Norstrilia. Unfortunately, I’ve not had time this week to write up my thoughts and have utterly failed to come up with something else appropriately Cordwainer Smith for this week’s entry. I’ll have to copt-out this week and simply suggest that [...]

There’s a page on my website that has a photo gallery of the science fiction art of Craig Moore, or at least his Cordwainer Smith art. I really like his work and with his permission have put some of the images onto t-shirts that you can see at my Cafepress Cordwainer Smith t-shirt store.   [...]

by Steve Davidson, The Crotchety Old Fan I’ve made no secret (elsewhere) of my gushing fanboy affliction for the science fiction author A Bertram Chandler.   I’m about to inflict it upon you all here within the hallowed pages of another author who’s star burns as brightly as Chandler’s  in my science fictional heaven. I do [...]

I guess some of my ancestors in the US South were slaveholders, because there are black Linebargers. Readers from other countries may not know that after slavery ended in the United States, after our Civil War, it was not uncommon for newly emancipated people to take the last name of the former slave-owners. I get [...]

by Steve Davidson – The Crotchety Old Fan Can’t you just see the marquee? THE BALLAD OF LOST C’MELL or THE GAME OF RAT AND DRAGON although, given Hollywood’s penchant for stepping on things, that story would probably be entitled The Rat Game by the time it finally made it to the theaters. Complaining about [...]