Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1e.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihu1e!mroth From: mroth@ihu1e.UUCP (roth) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: RE: Cordwainer Smith book... Message-ID: <607@ihu1e.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 14:59:39 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1e.607 Posted: Thu Feb 13 14:59:39 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 05:27:35 EST References: <1258@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 > From: Ronald A. Jarrell > > > The one with the "This is the middle, this is the beginning, etc." in it > is Norstrillia. As I recall it was the only full length novel Smith > wrote, and was supposed to be the centerpiece for his stories of the > Instrumentality of Man. I picked it up cold one day and read it. Enjoyed > it enough that I went out and got the rest of his stories. > > -Ron I recall reading a short story which had the same idea of middle, end, beginning. It was in a collection my parents have called something like "Best Science Fiction of 1948". I do not have access to the book, though. Mike -- ----------------- ihnp4!ihlpa!mroth -----------------