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From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
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Subject: Re: Seeking recommendations on SF Author - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 14:53:05 EST
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    To the person who is looking for a s-f author with a number of stories set
in a consistent universe. Have you discovered Cordwainer Smith?

    Smith's work consists of a single rich, complex novel "Norstrilia", and a
double handful of short stories and novellas. All of the above are vivid in
their imagry and characters, and loaded with interlocking cross-references and
obscure jokes. (In some stories for example, many of the characters' names are
the words for different numbers in various languages). 

    If you can find the out-of-print collection "Space Lords", it has five of
the very best short stories. Four of these are in the in-print "Best of 
Cordwainer Smith". Another in -print collection "The Instrumentality of Mankind"
is essentially minor stuff to complete the set. I would give it last priority
myself.

    It is a strange, and wonderful universe out there. I envy you the chance
to discover it afresh.

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	Dr Memory
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