September 11 Thoughts of My Father

It wasn’t till mid-morning that it dawned on me that we’ve come around to September 11 again. Actually, it happened when I went to the website of a company I do some business with (Shareasale) and they were closed for the day, with a commentary which included this: Each year, we close our offices today…

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Money

Alan Elms found an unpublished article of my father’s titled “Any Fool Can Earn Money” in the University of Kansas archives. It appears to have been written in the early 1950s. Here’s part of it: Intelligence will make money. But can intelligence spend it? I doubt it. It takes taste to spend money effectively.

Malay Words in the Cordwainer Smith Stories

By Thierry Goubier and Onil Nazra Persada When I received these comments by email, I asked for permission to use them on the website. Thanks, you two, for granting it! –Rosana Since getting hold of the complete French edition of Cordwainer Smith stories in 1988, we have been both interested and surprised by the liberal…

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Norstrilia and Dune

Has anyone, to your knowledge, yet found the connection between the two works Norstrilia and Dune?

Yes, he did see the future. Or maybe he imagined it into being… in which case I hope some of the grimmer bits of his stories never come about! Many things which Cordwainer Smith wrote about are happening now– animal cloning, for one. So I have started a category of this blog called “It’s Happening…

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When Did You First Read Cordwainer Smith?

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…

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Thoughts on Redoing the Website

I’ve just spent several weeks redoing cordwainer-smith.com, eight years after it first went up. For the first two or three years, I had a lot of energy for it. I did an ezine every couple of weeks and corresponded with fans who emailed from all over the planet. Several of us started the Cordwainer Smith…

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Think Blue, Count Two: Rat Brains Running Robots

I got this email last week from Corby Waste, whose Cordwainer Smith art is on the website. They say sometimes the “truth is stranger than fiction”. Not for us Cordwainer Smith fans – we’ve heard it all before!!! Rat-brain robot aids memory study – BBC News

Chu Djang’s Memories of Paul M. A. Linebarger

Chu Djang — we wrote his name Djang Chu in those days — was one of my father’s very closest friends, and I have many memories of visiting “Djang,” as we always called him, his wife Jane, and his sons William and Arthur in New York, as we were growing up. (Once, when I was…

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What is Your Favorite Cordwainer Smith Story?

Do you have a favorite from among all of Cordwainer Smith’s stories? If so, do post a comment, and if you feel like it, add some remarks about why it’s your favorite, how it has affected you, etc. My own favorite is “The Dead Lady of Clown Town,” and I suppose the reasons go deep…

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Welcome to the Cordwainer Smith Blog

I’m starting the Cordwainer Smith blog in order to: Give you, the readers and fans, a way to make comments on a variety of topics Report on any Cordwainer Smith news that might come along Put up some of the bits and pieces that were buried in obscure corners of the old website Give me…

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