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 here, [...]
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 sf. [...]
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 you all keep [...]
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 so for [...]
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 Hollywood’s treatment of well-known SF works [...]
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 [...]
I’m Cordwainer Smith’s daughter, but I’m not really a serious science fiction fan. So while I can do this blog okay, I’m thinking that there may be some of you readers who actually have more interesting things to say about Cordwainer Smith stories, his vision, his place in science fiction, or whatever. Commentary on other [...]
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 [...]
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 cost… [...]
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 Cordwainer [...]
What can already be said about the place of Cordwainer Smith in the history of science fiction? How will he be remembered as a science fiction author?
Your opinions are welcomed. Me, I really don’t know, but
What do you remember? The year, the story, its effects on you? How old were you?
I really can’t remember when I first read his science fiction. He gave me copies of some of the magazines as they came out, but I think that well before any science fiction, I read Atomsk, the spy novel he [...]
