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…
Guest Bloggers Wanted… Here. No Pay, Not Much Fame.
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at
3:31 pm
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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…
Two Interesting Cordwainer Smith Articles
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at
2:37 pm
This must be old news to serious fans, but I am constantly amazed at all the articles that turn up about Cordwainer Smith. I discover some of them through using Google Alerts, but today’s post is about an ezine that one of the writers told me about. It’s a downloadable pdf, available at no cost:…
A Bit Like My Father When I Travel
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at
8:40 pm
One thing I’ve noticed during my various trips to Mexico (where I now mostly live) is how much I have inherited my father’s outgoing curiosity about other people and what they are doing. Actually, sometimes I can be quite shy if I don’t feel that my mastery of the language is good enough to really…
Do Cordwainer Smith Fans Read Clifford Simak?
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at
8:46 pm
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…
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…
Hubble Space Telescope Follows Cordwainer Smith’s Lead
Friday, November 14th, 2008 at
10:59 am
Here’s an email I received this week from Cordwainer Smith artist Corby Waste, reprinted with his permission: Well, well, well, here’s something REALLY amazing – it seems that the Hubble Space Telescope has taken it’s first picture of a planet orbiting another star. Out of all the stars in the universe it happened to photograph…
Cordwainer Smith and Archaeology
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at
4:06 pm
I had never given a thought to my father’s effect on archaeology until I received this email from Dr. Alasdair Brooks, an archaeologist working in Australia [a.brooksATlatrobe.edu.au AFTER YOU REPLACE AT WITH @]. He wrote: You might be interested in an academic paper that I’ve written about your father’s work…The premise of the paper is…
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