You Can Read Several Cordwainer Smith Science Fiction Stories Online Free

There is an ebook edition of Cordwainer Smith’s stories and the publisher (with our agent’s permission) put several of the stories online where you can read them free. If you have never read Cordwainer Smith, this is an easy way to get started. If you are a fan already, you might like to refresh your memory. If you want to get the ebook, I expect you can get to it from the stories.

Here they are:

No, No, Not Rogov!

War No. 81-Q (Rewritten Version)

Mark Elf

The Queen of the Afternoon

Scanners Live in Vain

The Lady Who Sailed The Soul

When the People Fell

There is also a very interesting article by Frederick Pohl, the introduction to a Cordwainer Smith collection called When the People Fell.

I had not realized that my father was beginning to meet science fiction people not long before he died. Here’s a bit from Pohl’s article: