![]() ![]() It is set in his future world of the Instrumentality, depicts strong human-animal connections, immediately immerses the reader in new vocabulary and culture, and leaves the reader with the sense of strangeness that marks truly great science fiction. Sometimes titled She Got The Which of the What She Did, this story is arguably Smith's most famous because of its complete representation of him as an author. ![]() Smith's second wife says the plot was partially based on his first wife's attraction to someone else, but it was also inspired by The Storm, a painting by Pierre-Auguste Cot. " It tells the story of a government making the sudden change out of a sheltered society and into one with significantly less governmental control. This story was one of Smith's most popular and was said by Ursula Le Guin to be, " as important to me as reading Pasternak for the first time. ![]() It also uses the common sf technique of jumping directly into a story, foregoing any background information, and expecting the reader to pick up on the invented vocabulary or culture. Smith's second published story, The Game of Rat and Dragon is a great example of his motif of unusually close animal-human relationships. ![]() One scanner, while in a temporary state of neural normalcy called cranching, commits an unheard of act which completely changes the Instrumentality's use of scanners. The first short story published under the name Cordwainer Smith, Scanners Live in Vain tells the story of people who have voluntarily disconnected their brain from all senses besides sight. ![]()
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