![]() It didn't make much sense to wear a uniform and look like a soldier if people didn't appreciate what you did. Underhill was furious as he closed the door behind himself. ![]() ![]() Pinlighting is a hell of a way to earn a living. if they are willing to dare the dark and twisted dimensions of "space three," the "up-and-out," and face the "dragons" that dwell there, malevolent and implacably deadly creatures who strike without warning out of the black hollow nothingness of multidimensional space, and who can only be defeated by-a cat. Here, in what may well be the most imaginative of the science fiction extrapolations in this anthology, he shows us a future in which travelers can flit between the stars in the blinking of an eye. Smith's books include the long novel Norstrilia, and the collections Space Lords, The Best of Cordwainer Smith, You Will Never Be the Same, Stardreamer, Quest of the Three Worlds, and The Instrumentality of Mankind. ![]() ![]() Linebarger, scholar and statesman-created a science fiction cosmology unique in its scope and complexity: a millennia-spanning Future History, logically outlandish and elegantly strange, set against a vivid, richly colored, mythically intense universe where animals assume the shape of men, vast planoform ships whisper through multidimensional space, immortality can be bought, and the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality rule a haunted Earth too old for history. The late Cordwainer Smith-in "real" life Dr. ![]()
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