• ikidd@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Thanks. I thought I’d read everything Cordwainer Smith had written, but had never seen that before.

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          14 days ago

          That might have had a rewritten version in it because it was vaguely familiar and I’m pretty sure I have that collection.

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            14 days ago

            I can’t believe that they haven’t made an anime out of the original catgirl, C’Mell.

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              14 days ago

              Man, I wish he had gotten more work done on the Instrumentality. The first novel I read was Norstrilia, maybe when I was like 13 or 14, and that absolutely got me hooked on the universe he built.

              Now I have to go back and read everything again if I can dig those out of the boxes. I was really getting down on the pointlessness maundering of modern SF stories and had pretty much shut down reading it. Now I’m excited again.

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                14 days ago

                John Varley is pretty underrated. “Titan” is an anime ready adventure story and “The Ophiucci Hotline” is good old fashioned hard SF. He’s the first writer I think of who compares with Smith.