The Rediscovery of man

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• kryptiskt · Jul 2, 2019 · Recommends

  "The Rediscovery of Man" by Cordwainer Smith There's no other science fiction like this, he had a unique style. It's a collection with most of the SF he wrote, excepting the novel "Norstrilia".

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• baruchel · Jan 20, 2020 · Recommends

  …some of my ideas are actually forgotten or not... This helped discarding some books (like "Roadside Picnic" or "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub"). While not absolutely unknown, I would still suggest: "The Rediscovery of Man" by Cordwainer Smith.

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• fmajid · May 17, 2023 · Recommends

  One of the greatest of the Golden Age writers with Ted Sturgeon, unlike the insipid and grossly overrated Heinlein. NESFA Press has excellent omnibus reissues of The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia. I just wish they had eBook versions as well like they recently did for Fredric Brown. I myself first read his work in French translation when I was 12 or so (unlike the US, classics like…

  on “Throngs of Himself: On Paul Linebarger, a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith (2018)” ↗