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Wisdom for the ages
"Mind Partner" is a story you can read in a half hour or so and leave with a lesson in survival that will serve you for the rest of your life. What other story can make that claim?The other stories are all grand - but buy the collection for "Mind Partner."I survived 3 tours in Vietnam and many other difficult events by using this advice and point of view.

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Also includes stories by Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Cordwainer Smith, Jim Harmon, Margaret St. Clair, Sydney Van Scyoc, Gordon R. Dickson and others. ... Read more

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Beatniks in Orbit!
These 196-page Galaxy Magazines of the early 1960s were just a terrific bargain! You always knew that an absolute minimum of half the stories would be terrific.

Galaxy Magazine
Volume 20 No. 1, October 1961
Cover by Virgil Finlay

CONTENTS:

Novelettes
A Planet Named Shayol(Cordwainer Smith)
Arcturus Times Three (Jack Sharkey)
The Abominable Earthman (Frederik Pohl)
Short Stories
The Spy in the Elevator(Donald E. Westlake)
The Beat Cluster (Fritz Leiber)
Mating Call (Frank Herbert)
Amateur in Chancery (George O. Smith)
Crime Machine(Robert Bloch)
Articles
The Man Made Land (Willy Ley)
How Much is Enough?(H. L. Gold)
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A collection of 14 short science fiction stories by the author of "Norstrilia" and "The Rediscovery of Man". Each tale is set in an extraordinary universe of scanners, planoforming ships and animal-derived Underpeople. ... Read more

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The Instrumentallllity of Mankind
As I have written in a previous review, Cordwainer Smith will remain in the memory of all who read his books for the rest of their lives.His characters and situations, as well as language and style of writing, lend themselves to such strong imaginings, a state of dreaming in some cases, that the possibilities, however far fetched, may be, just maybe could happen.Just maybe could...
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Chapters: Cordwainer Smith, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Robert Van Gulik, Timothy Brook, Karl August Wittfogel, Joseph Needham, Michael Pillsbury, Snejina Gogova, Orville Schell, Michał Boym, Martin Woesler, Rolf Stein, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Homer H. Dubs, Marshall Broomhall, List of Sinologists, Marcel Granet, Vera Schwarcz, John K. Fairbank, Walter Liebenthal, Emil Krebs, John Defrancis, Lucian Pye, Chao Yuen Ren, William H. Hinton, Victor H. Mair, Alfred James Broomhall, Achilles Fang, Bernhard Karlgren, Yury Zuev, Rudolf Ritsema, Robert Samuel Maclay, Arthur Waley, Frederic H. Balfour, James Legge, Jonathan Spence, Nathan Sivin, Göran Malmqvist, Roderick Macfarquhar, Dali Yang, Arthur Judson Brown, Thomas Francis Wade, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Michele Ruggieri, Gregory B. Lee, Paul Pelliot, Christopher I. Beckwith, Joseph Edkins, Zhang Binglin, Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov, Yu Ying-Shih, Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Michel Oksenberg, Frederick W. Baller, Justus Doolittle, Séraphin Couvreur, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Serge Elisséeff, Rafe de Crespigny, Augustine Henry, Laurence Sickman, Stanislas Julien, Alexander Von Staël-Holstein, Johan Nieuhof, Wolfram Eberhard, Joachim Bouvet, Herrlee Glessner Creel, Walter Simon, John Francis Davis, Wing-Tsit Chan, Herbert Giles, Leon Stover, Hans Van de Ven, William Watson, Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis D'hervey de Saint Denys, Stephan Endlicher, Wang Ling, William P. Alford, Gu Jiegang, Lewis Hodous, Frederick W. Mote, Johann Schreck, Frederic Wakeman, John Minford, Frits Holm, Juan Cobo, Robert Oxnam, Edward Youde, Denis C. Twitchett, Alexander Wylie, Burton Watson, Samuel Wells Williams, Zhou Youguang, Pierre Ryckmans, Miguel de Benavides, Lucien Bianco, Henri Maspero, Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Derek Bryan, Charles Hartwell, Paul Thompson, Thomas Manning, Peter A. Boodberg, Kristofer Schipper, Georg Von Der Gabelentz, Richard B. Stamps, George Soulié de Morant, Kw...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25921748 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scanners Live in Vain, a Planet Named Shayol, Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons, the Dead Lady of Clown Town, When the People Fell, the Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal, the Game of Rat and Dragon, the Ballad of Lost C'mell. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "Scanners Live in Vain" is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Linebarger), set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally published in the magazine Fantasy Book in 1950. It was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America to be one of the finest short stories prior to 1965 and was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964. This was Linebarger's first published SF story as an adult (his short story "War No. 81-Q", which he wrote at age 15 was published in his high school magazine), and the first appearance of the Cordwainer Smith pen name. It was written in 1945, and had been rejected by a number of magazines before its acceptance and publication in Fantasy Book in 1950. It was in that obscure magazine that it was noticed by SF writer Frederik Pohl who, impressed with the story's powerful imagery and style, subsequently re-published it in 1952 in the more widely read anthology Beyond the End of Time. Part of the appeal of the story was its uniqueness, from the strange future world to the cynical ending. Robert Silverberg called it "one of the classic stories of science fiction" and noted its "sheer originality of concept" and its "deceptive and eerie simplicity of narrative." John J Pierce, in his introduction to the anthology The Best of Cordwainer Smith, commented the strong sense of religion it shares with Smith's other works, likening the Code of the Scanne...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7307006 ... Read more

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Chapters: Stephen Ambrose, Oliver North, Tom Clancy, John Mccain, Hunter Scott, P.g.t. Beauregard, Cordwainer Smith, Barbara Tuchman, Hal Moore, John Boyd, Smedley Butler, Ralph Peters, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Peter W. Singer, David Halberstam, Shelby Foote, John Hattendorf, Alexander P. de Seversky, James Wesley Rawles, Ève Curie, Brandon Friedman, Richard Marcinko, Bruce B. G. Clarke, James Devereux, Asa Bird Gardiner, Dale Brown, David Glantz, Matthew Bogdanos, W. E. B. Griffin, George Fielding Eliot, Trevor N. Dupuy, Jim Dunnigan, Robert J. Mrazek, Gary Brecher, Wesley L. Fox, Edward Luttwak, Douglas Ollivant, Edward Ellsberg, Fletcher Pratt, William Manchester, Beirne Lay, Jr., Bert Stiles, Jeff Stein, Leonard Wong, James Carafano, Park Benjamin, Jr., Michael Klare, Homer Lea, W. D. Ehrhart, Richard P. Hallion, William S. Lind, Henry M. Cist, Kayla Williams, Bing West, Martin Caidin, John William de Forest, John Lehman, Dennis Hart Mahan, Dennis Chalker, Anthony Cordesman, Clark G. Reynolds, the War I Always Wanted, Daniel Allen Butler, Stephen Coonts, Walter Lord, Michael Alfred Peszke, Gordon Prange, Jac Weller, James Norman Hall, Sarah Smiley, Douglas S. Freeman, Peter Huchthausen, Quentin Reynolds, Francis Vinton Greene, Edward J. Emering, James Grant Wilson, Kim Ponders, Robert Cowley, Dave Grossman, Dick Couch, Steven Pressfield, Winston Groom, Michael Strobl, Franklin M. Davis, Jr, Harry G. Summers, Jr., Mark Bowden, John Robb, Michael Lee Lanning, John Stryker Meyer, Rick Atkinson, John Thomason, Michael G. Vickers, William Arkin, Walter Karig, Theophilus Francis Rodenbough, Yossef Bodansky, Henry Hayes Lockwood, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Richard W. Johnson, Caleb Carr, Richard Jadick, Nathaniel Fick, T. R. Fehrenbach, Martha Raddatz, Donald Burgett, Stephen Luce, Julian Hatcher, Richard Machowicz, Stephen Van Evera, Ivan Eland, Richard M. Dolan, Jules Archer, Lisle Rose, Christopher Pyle, George Wood Wingate, Stuart Roche...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43715 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cordwainer Smith, Orville Schell, Stanford J. Shaw, William F. Albright, Raphael Patai, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Kanan Makiya, Divie Bethune Mccartee, Richard C Steiner, Charles Rockwell Lanman, Ernest Fenollosa, Ovid R. Sellers, Christian K. Wedemeyer, Patricia Crone, Norman Stillman, Berthold Laufer, Francis Edwards Peters, Oscar White Muscarella, Stephen Little, Robert Oxnam, Richard Douglas Lane, Eugene Dooman, Peter A. Boodberg, G. Ernest Wright, Israel Friedlander, Marshall Hodgson, John Wansbrough, Jacob Lassner, Nathaniel Schmidt, Charles Cutler Torrey, Isaac Hollister Hall, William Hayes Ward, Duncan Black Macdonald, Nikki Keddie, Dorinne K. Kondo, Wilhelm Max Müller, Harold P. Stern, Hagop Kevorkian, Lawrence Heyworth Mills, Francis Wilson Price. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cordwainer Smith pronounced CORDwainer was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller Atomsk), "Anthony Bearden" (for his poetry) and "Felix C. Forrest" (for the novels Ria and Carola). Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was Paul M. W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911. As a result of those connections, Linebarger's godfather was Sun Yat-sen, considered the father of Chinese nationalism. As a child, Linebarger was blinded in his right eye; the vision in his remaining eye was impaired by infection. His father moved his family to France and then Germany while Sun Yat-sen was struggling against contentious w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7105 ... Read more

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Seven writers give Introduction, Paul Linebarger, Cordwainer Smith, John Foyster Talks with Arthur Burns, I am Joan & I Love You, Chronology, Bibliography and background. 33 pages ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Cordwainer Smith, Short Stories by Cordwainer Smith, Short Story Collections by Cordwainer Smith, Scanners Live in Vain, a Planet Named Shayol, Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons, Norstrilia, the Dead Lady of Clown Town, When the People Fell, the Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal, the Game of Rat and Dragon, the Rediscovery of Man, the Ballad of Lost C'mell, Atomsk. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "Scanners Live in Vain" is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Linebarger), set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally published in the magazine Fantasy Book in 1950. It was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America to be one of the finest short stories prior to 1965 and was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964. This was Linebarger's first published SF story as an adult (his short story "War No. 81-Q", which he wrote at age 15 was published in his high school magazine), and the first appearance of the Cordwainer Smith pen name. It was written in 1945, and had been rejected by a number of magazines before its acceptance and publication in Fantasy Book in 1950. It was in that obscure magazine that it was noticed by SF writer Frederik Pohl who, impressed with the story's powerful imagery and style, subsequently re-published it in 1952 in the more widely read anthology Beyond the End of Time. Part of the appeal of the story was its uniqueness, from the strange future world to the cynical ending. Robert Silverberg called it "one of the classic stories of science fiction" and noted its "sheer originality of concept" and its "deceptive and eerie simplicity of narrative." John J Pierce, in his introduction t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7307006 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cordwainer Smith, John P. O'neill, Richard A. Clarke, Robert Baer, Sefton Delmer, Omar Nasiri, Charles Douglas Jackson, Michael G. Vickers. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Alan Clarke (born October 1951) was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 19732003. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National Security Council. President Bill Clinton retained Clarke and in 1998 promoted him to be the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council. Under President George W. Bush, Clarke initially continued in the same position, but the position was no longer given cabinet-level access. He later became the Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity, before leaving the Bush Administration in 2003. Richard Clarke came to widespread public attention for his role as counter-terrorism czar in the Clinton and Bush Administrations in March 2004, when he appeared on the 60 Minutes television news magazine, released his memoir about his service in government, Against All Enemies, and testified before the 9/11 Commission. In all three instances, Clarke was sharply critical of the Bush Administration's attitude toward counter-terrorism before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and of the decision to go to war with Iraq. Following his strong criticisms of the Bush Administration, Bush administration officials and other Republicans attempted to discredit Clarke or rebut his criticisms, making Clarke a controversial figure. Richard Clarke is currently Chairman of Good Harbor Con...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=544156 ... Read more

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Not Free SF Reader
A little bit of Australian satire in Norstrilia. e.g. Northern
Australia. This is the only place in the galaxy that the sheep who
produce an immortality product can be raised. This causes Norstrilia to
be the richest place in the galaxy.

That sort of money will always cause problems.

The people of Norstrilia are happy as they are, and don't want people coming there, or to go out and take over the universe.

The main character here thinks differently, and hence gets into a ton of trouble, taking his money out into space.


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