The Rediscovery of Man

Name: The Rediscovery of Man
ISBN: 9781857988192

Cordwainer Smith

1975·377 pages

Science Fiction

classics hard sci fi short stories technology and humanity

Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. This collection explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human. Contents: Cordwainer Smith: The Shaper of Myths (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce] The Instrumentality of Mankind (timeline) (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce * Scanners Live in Vain [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1950) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith: meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine-a scanner-to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stig

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