![]() ![]() Perhaps the most highly literary of all science fiction writers before the New Wave of the sixties (and still, for my money, a better read than most of that failed revolutionary literature), Smith's single novel 'Norstrilia' is utterly unlike any other science fiction novel. I could wave my arms, suspend disbelief and accept faster-than-light-drives and even ETs who were remarkably human in appearance except for their foreheads, but had a much harder time with a person who was partly genetically cat and partly genetically human.īut now, in the light of advancing techniques in microbiology and genetics, it seems likely that chimeras are more possible, technically, (although not socially and hence politically) than FTL drives. Cordwainer Smith deserves the widest possible recognition. ![]() ![]() Cordwainer Smith's stories about chimeras (see Definition 4 in this link), i.e., people who were part human and part animal seemed the farthest-out of far-out science fiction when they were first published – at least to me. ![]()
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