The Ladies That Sailed Our Souls
With a (hurricane) (tropical storm) (tropical depression) threatening, The Three Hoarsemen batten down the hatches, throw bars across window shutters, and get pails ready for bailing. Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson and John E.O. Stevens are joined by returning guest Karen Burnham to discuss the life and works of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (a.k.a., Felix C. Forrest; a.k.a. Carmichael Smith), best known as Cordwainer Smith.
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Show Notes
Show Notes
Books by Cordwainer Smith:
The Rediscovery of Man (NESFA Edition) (SF Masterworks Edition)
Norstrilia (NESFA Edition) (SF Masterworks Edition) (Ballantine/Del Rey Edition)
The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Ballantine/Del Rey Books Edition)
The Instrumentality of Mankind (Del Rey Books Edition)
The Quest of the Three Worlds (Del Rey Books Edition)
When the People Fell (Baen Books Edition)
We the Underpeople (Baen Books Edition)
About Cordwainer Smith:
Cordwainer Smith’s dedication in Space Lords
Remembering Cordwainer Smith: Full-Time Sci-Fi Author, Part-Time Earthling (The Atlantic)
Wikipedia on The Instrumentality of Mankind
The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, by Karen Hellekson
Concordance of Cordwainer Smith, by Anthony R. Lewis
Exploring Cordwainer Smith, edited by Andrew Porter
Culture Consumed:
Karen Burnham:
The Landmark Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley and edited by Robert B. Strassler
Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng’en
Alphabet of Embers, by Rose Lemberg, Nin Harris and Nisi Shawl, et al.
Review of Alphabet of Embers, by Karen Egan (Strange Horizons)
Greg Egan (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), by Karen Burnham
Fred Kiesche:
The Issue at Hand, by James Blish (as William Atheling, Jr.)
More Issues at Hand, by James Blish (as William Atheling, Jr.)
Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf, by Algis Budrys
Benchmarks Continued: F&SF “Books” Columns 1975-1982, by Algis Budrys
Benchmarks Revisited: F&SF “Books” Columns 1983-1986, by Algis Budrys
Benchmarks Concluded: F&SF “Books” Columns 1987-1993, by Algis Budrys
In Search of Wonder, by Damon Knight
2016: The Year in Graphics: 353
2016: The Year in Audio Listens: Too many!
Jeff Patterson:
Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, edited by Paula Guran
Best New Horror Volume 36, edited by Stephen Jones
Sing Me Your Scars, by Damien Angelica Walters
John Stevens:
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, by Stonehouse, author; Red Pine, translator
The Silver Surfer, by Dan Slott, writer; Mike and Laura Allred, artists
Nowhere to Go But Forward: The Fiction of Octavia E. Butler, by Emily Anderson
The Future-As-Past in Dystopian Fiction, by Adam Stock (academic paper) (PDF) (published in Poetics Today 37(3): 415-442, 2016.
Alan C. Elms’ Introduction to Norstrilia
