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A while back, I had some correspondance with Damien Broderick,  often called  the dean of Australian science fiction, and he is kindly allowing me to post this article which includes interesting CS comments. You can read The Ruined Queen of Harvest World online here. — Rosana An Introduction to “The Ruined Queen of Harvest World”…

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The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award

by Steve Davidson – The Crotchety Old Fan A few short years ago, the Cordwainer Smith Foundation introduced the C.S. Rediscovery Award. It’s purpose is to honor a “science fiction or fantasy writer whose work displays unusual originality, embodies the spirit of Cordwainer Smith’s fiction, and deserves renewed attention or ‘Rediscovery.’” Since 2001, the award…

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Do Cordwainer Smith Fans Read Clifford Simak?

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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