Distributed over several collections of short stories, a major literary sum (yet unknown) Science fiction. Over the chronic lying in the indefinite future and different times (certainly far removed from today's world), emerges a coherent vision of the future inhabited by a rare and haunting poetry. Science has little place in the themes and stories covered, leaving the whole place to dream, and its human perspective necessary discounts in the stream of evolution, providing one of the escapes more imaginative and inspired that we were ever delivered by an SF writer. The most overwhelming emotion (love that transcends the passage of time) rubs the most chilling visions of possible futures of Man. The future raided these pages with a searing, a beauty and a unique natural spontaneous in this literature, so that it was often said of Cordwainer Smith that he could bring more acutely that such stories 'truly having traveled himself in these coming times. Experiment-in reading and you will understand why, many years after reading the dream persists.
