Review of 'The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Who would have thought that someone who lived an interesting life, wrote interesting things... Hmm
Anyways Cordwainer Smith created a fascinating world with an immense future and past history, but unlike Stapledon who told his history through cold hearted academic style, he told it through its myth, legends and fairy tales, sometimes "corrected" for the official history. In this he had made it seem far more real and palatable than Stapledons world (thank god for that it's a 600 page book).
Critics in his days had trouble with his work, for it wasn't hard SF, wasn't military SF, almost sociological SF, kinda pulp and bit of satire, modernism, surrealism and post modernism.
But for us it is Cordwainer Smith.
