“Cordwainer Smith is not as well known as his talent deserved.”
You might appreciate this. One of the nicknames of my little female cat (an adorable brown tabby with intense green eyes — all my friends keep offering to adopt her) is “Peerless C’mell — the most beautiful girly-girl in all the known worlds.”
;o)
IMHO, “Scanners Live in Vain” is one of the finest SF short stories ever written. Anyone on this thread who posesses $20 and no exposure to Cordwainer Smith owes it to themselves to purchase a copy of “The Rediscovery of Man”.