Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger)

TITLE: Instrumentality of Mankind

AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-1966

TYPE: paperback Collection

PUBLISHER: Ballantine/Del Rey 27716

COVER PRICE: $1.95

ISBN:

PAGES: 238

PUB DATE: May 1979

EDITION: 1st edition; 1st publication

COPYRIGHT: 1979 by author’s wife

COVER ARTIST: Michael Herring

ISFDB: Yes

RATING:

INDEX: 0230 - Instrumentality of Mankind - 10 - CS - IFB

 

CONTENTS:

·viii • Timeline from The Instrumentality of Mankind • (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce ]

·xi • Introduction (The Instrumentality of Mankind) • essay by Frederik Pohl

·1 • No, No, Not Rogov! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·21 • War No. 81-Q • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·25 • Mark Elf • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1957) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·40 • The Queen of the Afternoon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1978) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith

·71 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·85 • Think Blue, Count Two • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith

·119 • The Colonel Came Back from Nothing-at-All • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1979) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·129 • From Gustible's Planet • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·136 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith

·171 • Western Science Is So Wonderful • (1958) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·186 • Nancy • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·200 • The Fife of Bodidharma • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·210 • Angerhelm • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

·233 • The Good Friends • (1963) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

 

 

QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith

 

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