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And if you haven't heard of him, Cordwainer Smith is well worth reading too.

"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" had an enormous effect on me as a teenager. I still have the October 1962 copy of Galaxy Magazine with C'Mell on the cover.

Likewise I loved the tales of Old Norstrillia.

And of course Cordwainer Smith was actually Paul Linebarger.

Agreed, Cordwainer Smith made quite the impression on me, not only for the ideas, but for his writing style.

Cordwainer Smith is mentioned in the article: "The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award was founded in 2001 to draw attention to unjustly forgotten SF authors."

Like the article says, I wish they collected the award winners in an anthology.

Unfortunately Gardner Dozois died recently -- he would have been the ideal person to put together such an anthology (given his background of already having produced dozens of SFF anthologies).

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