Cordwainer Smith wrote wonderful (if idosyncratic) short stories. Unfortunately there are far too few of them. His stories have a romantic, folk-tale quality that I can occasionaly find in the very best juvenile fantsy, but I've never seen matched in science fiction. "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell", "The Lady Who Sailed _The Soul_", "Scanners Live In Vain", "The Game of Rat and Dragon", "A Planet Named Shayol", among others, are all stories to conjure by. Really, really, *really* recommended. One of my all time favorites. [C] == Short Story Collection. aka == Also known by this other title. rev == revision of an older title /John arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com nothinghelpsabadmoodlikespreadingitaround-ly ---------------------------------------------------------------- Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony [,Ph.D.] [U.S.A., 7/11/1913-8/6/1966] [as Cordwainer Smith] Norstrilia [1975] [rev. of the following two, the original version was as one book which was mangled by editors] The Planet Buyer [1964] The Underpeople [1968] You Will Never Be the Same [1963] [C] Space Lords [1965] [C] Quest of the Three Worlds [1966] [C] Under Old Earth [1970] [C] Stardreamer [1971] [C] The Best of Cordwainer Smith [1975] [C] [aka "The Rediscovery of Man"] The Instrumentality of Mankind [1979] [C]