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Cordwainer Smith

First published June 1961
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series The Instrumentality of Mankind

Synopsis

In the future, the safe but homogenous and boring utopia has been rolled back to allow disease and death, as well as differing nations of humanity. Two citizens, newly become French and newly in love, decide to visit a mysterious ancient computer reputed to have the power of prognostication, which can only be reached via the ruins of an ancient avenue through the sky.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1962 Hugo Award Best Short Fiction Nominee/Finalist

Publications (49)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1961 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1961 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 5
October 1961 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 86
1962 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series Doubleday Anthology
March 1962 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series Doubleday Anthology 193
October 1962 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series Doubleday / SFBC Anthology
1963 You Will Never Be the Same Regency Books Collection 115
1964 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series Gollancz Anthology
1966 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Eleventh Series Ace Books Anthology 189
May 1966 The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: Number 11 Panther Anthology 137
1970 The Ends of Time: Eight Stories of Science Fiction Hawthorn Books Anthology 1
1970 Under Old Earth and Other Explorations Panther Collection 93
September 1970 You Will Never Be the Same Berkley Medallion Collection 130
July 1975 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 259
September 1975 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Ballantine Books Collection 283
September 1975 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Ballantine Books Collection 283
October 1975 You Will Never Be the Same Garland Publishing Collection 130
October 1977 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 283
October 1977 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 283
April 1980 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 71
April 1980 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Arbor House Anthology 71
December 1984 Machines That Kill Ace Science Fiction Books Anthology 71
July 1985 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 283
November 1987 Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century Avenel Books Anthology 71
June 1988 The Rediscovery of Man VGSF / Gollancz Collection 283
September 1988 The Rediscovery of Man Gollancz Collection 283
May 1992 Machines That Kill Tor Anthology 75
June 1993 The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith NESFA Press Collection 375
October 1993 The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 49
May 1999 The Rediscovery of Man Millennium / Orion Collection 283
June 1999 The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 49
May 2000 The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 43
May 2000 Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and the Furthest Horizon Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 506
December 2000 The Ends of Time Cosmos Books Anthology
August 2002 The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
2003 The Rediscovery of Man Gollancz / Orion Collection 283
December 2006 We the Underpeople Baen Books Collection 149
December 2006 We the Underpeople Baen Books Collection 5
August 2008 We the Underpeople Baen Books Collection 207
February 2010 The Rediscovery of Man Gollancz / Orion Collection
April 2011 The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
November 2012 The Rediscovery of Man Gateway / Orion Collection
November 2016 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Blackstone Audio Collection |259
November 2016 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Blackstone Audiobooks Collection |12
November 2016 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Blackstone Audiobooks Collection |12
November 2016 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Blackstone Audiobooks Collection |12
April 2017 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Phoenix Pick Collection
April 2017 The Best of Cordwainer Smith Phoenix Pick Collection
January 2018 The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith NESFA Press Collection 387
October 2019 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Faded Page Chapbook