Scholar Alan Elms, who has been working on a biography of Paul M. A. Linebarger / Cordwainer Smith, just emailed me a link to this article about Cordwainer Smith. (Hmm, you have to click through on “Read More” to see the link.) I was amused by the thought of my father as a “part time earthling.”…
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Article in the Atlantic Online about Cordwainer Smith
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 at
7:06 pm
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Update on Our Agents
Sunday, April 29th, 2012 at
7:17 pm
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,…
New Contact Information for Our Agents
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at
11:12 am
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…
How to Keep Up with Cordwainer Smith Around the Internet
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at
8:21 am
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…
No, No, Not Rogov: A Review by Jim Black
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 at
7:45 am
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…
The Copt Out
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at
4:55 am
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…
Cordwainer Smith and A. Bertram Chandler
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at
12:01 am
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…
Cordwainer Smith at the Movies
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at
12:04 pm
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…
A Few Notes on Collecting Cordwainer
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at
9:15 am
Guest Blogger Steve Davidson blogs as The Crotchety Old Fan, maintains the Classic Science Fiction Channel website and is currently trying his hand at a science fiction novel, following a 20 year career in non-fiction. His latest non-fiction book, A Parent’s Guide to Paintball, will be released this coming April. I’ve been a Cordwainer Smith fan since I first…
Alan Elms Answers Some CS Queries
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at
4:13 pm
Alan Elms has been working on a biography of CS / PMAL for years, and I often turn to him for answers to questions that readers send me… Here are some of these, reprinted from old ezines of mine. I think the questions are obvious from the answers: Paul Linebarger wrote a book manuscript called…
Cordwainer Smith Quotes
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 at
4:10 pm
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…
Have Yourself a Merry Little… Cordwainer?
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 at
10:35 am
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…
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