The Best of Cordwainer Smith
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345323026 (0345323025)
Publish date: September 12th 1977
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 377
Edition language: English
Series: Instrumentality of Mankind
Cordwainer Smith is a most unusual story writer whose execution and creativity in ideas usually outshone the way they were ended. One usually expects a good, decisive ending to a SF short story but such was the sheer strangeness of his ideas, his poetical prose style and varied range of narrative te...
When I was in high school I would occasionally accompany my older brother to the college he attended and spend the day browsing the stacks of the university library. One day I came across a book titled "You Will Never Be the Same" by Cordwainer Smith. I could not pass up that title or author name....