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 Smith book as a gift. There’s an Amazon display on the right of the screen, or here’s a page on my site with links to several online booksellers’ Cordwainer Smith offerings.
2. Tell people where they can read Cordwainer Smith online for free. This link takes you to a page where I list the stories that are available this way. They are put there legitimately… by Baen, who sells an ebook of many of the tales…. you can figure out how to get that from the stories.
3. Wear or give a t-shirt, sweatshirt, tote bag, or something of the sort – in styles for men, women, unisex, and kids. These are promptly made to order by a company called Cafepress and they ship worldwide and offer a money-back guarantee.
Some of you have already bought some of these from the box on the sidebar (down a ways), but here are some new ones. Thanks to artist Craig Moore, whose Cordwainer Smith art is on my website now, for allowing me to put some of his artwork on the clothing.
You can see all the Cordwainer Smith t-shirts and other items from this link. Here are some examples:
This one is “Golden the Ship Was…” in organic cotton. My husband has this exact shirt and says the cotton is very soft and comfortable.
Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons look good on black… the little darlings!
I’ve got this exact shirt myself. It reflects my general attitude towards our world, though there ARE times I am more scared than interested! Maybe that’s when I need the shirt the most.
I was astounded when I discovered your site. Mr. Linebarger is my favorite SF author and I’m fairly hardcore, you could say, with seven thousand SF books surrounding me here in my den. Each one is a friend and I don’t mind their smells. Where else can you inhale a story 40, 50, 60 years old or older than in my den and smile?
I like firsts. I can’t possibly get Cordwainer Smith’s very first but I did acquire Scanners Live in Vain from a source in, get this, Australia a few years ago. Beautiful copy. I’m proud to be a custodian of it.
I’ve just finished reading The Boy Who Bought Old Earth for the first time. Discovered it in one of my Galaxy mags, which I’m plowing through. Wonderful story! Like nothing else before or since. The magazine says there is a sequel called something like The Store of Heart’s Desires so I Googled that and came up with you! Well met and please continue. You say Baen has this up on the Net? Next thing I’ll be checking.
Meeya Meefla. I hope I spelled that according to Cordwainer. So many French Canadians spend time in Miami Fla. (something like a million a year) that maybe it should be renamed Meeya Meefla. My Quebecois wife pronounces it Meeamee. I’m sure you knew that is where that name came from but just wanted to make sure. Being Canadian, I got it right away.
Kelly Franklin
Kelly, Thanks for writing and I didn’t know that about Miami. I think most of Toronto is here in Mexico, where I live at present.
The Boy Who Bought Old Earth is the first half of Norstrilia, published by NESFA in a good hardcover edition, checked for errors, where the Baen ebooks draw on older versions.
See:
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/norstrilia.htm
Best,
Rosana