Comments on: Have Yourself a Merry Little… Cordwainer? http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/have-yourself-a-merry-little-cordwainer.html About his science fiction and his life, run by his daughter Rosana Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cordwainersdaughter http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/have-yourself-a-merry-little-cordwainer.html/comment-page-1#comment-768 Cordwainersdaughter Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:34:49 +0000 http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/have-yourself-a-merry-little-cordwainer.html#comment-768 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 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

]]> By: Kelly Franklin http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/have-yourself-a-merry-little-cordwainer.html/comment-page-1#comment-767 Kelly Franklin Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:09:59 +0000 http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/have-yourself-a-merry-little-cordwainer.html#comment-767 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 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

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