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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 3 mo
Have been a fan of Cordwainer Smith’s for a long, long time…
Avatar wiredog @wiredog.bsky.social · 3 mo
@jdnicoll.bsky.social @scalzi.com @diane.dianeduane.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theorywww.theatlantic.com It all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare.
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 3 mo
His real life sometimes looks less plausible than the Instrumentality of Man.
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Amberglas @amberglas.bsky.social · 3 mo
Love “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell”
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Bookzombie @bookzombie.bsky.social · 3 mo
I've got a handful of old Galaxy magazines, and I'm so delighted that one of them has the very first publication of this story.
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 3 mo
It's interesting, but they mangle the plot of "Scanners Live In Vain," and in many ways the late-1940s "Shaver Mystery" nonsense is more direct feedstock for subsequent conspiracy theories.
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unter anderem rall @ute-rall.bsky.social · 3 mo
What a pity that Cordwainer Smith didn't design a world in which obscenely rich men support right-wing extremists to take over the world…
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 3 mo
same.
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Two Cats in a Trenchcoat @anned13.bsky.social · 3 mo
Same here too.
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George Poles @georgepoles.bsky.social · 3 mo
I love his work so much. I know I left many of his stories a slightly different person to the one who went in. And the Dead Lady of Clown Town never fails to make me weep.
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George Poles @georgepoles.bsky.social · 3 mo
(This article, though, feels like it's doing his work a major injustice)
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Eric Einsame @cyclingennui.bsky.social · 3 mo
Never heard of him, but thank you for the tip! Searching …
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Lone Sloane @lonesloane.bsky.social · 3 mo
This article has an....interesting...spin on the Instrumentality stories.