No one ever wrote like Smith, with his special blend of intense myth-making and rich invention --Publishers Weekly Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe.
This brilliant collection, often cited as the first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human.
In Scanners Live in Vain we meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine--a scanner--to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body.
