Here’s the late John Berkey’s striking art for Cordwainer Smith’s only novel, Norstrilia.
Albeit not an anthology, and thus, not featuring a series of thematically linked, individual stories (unlike many of the science fiction books featured at this blog), I’ve nonetheless listed the book’s chapter headings to give you a suggestion of the book’s “feel”, and, the originality of Smith’s literary style.
(Well, he is one of my favorite science-fiction authors!)
Introduction, by Alan Elms
Theme and Prologue
At the Gate of the Garden of Death
The Trial
Anger of the Onseck
The Old Broken Treasures in the Gap
The Quarrel at the Dinner Table
The Palace of the Governor of Night
The Eye Upon the Sparrow
FOE Money, SAD Money
Traps, Fortunes and Watchers
The Nearby Exile
Hospitality and Entrapment
The High Sky Flying
Discourses and Recourses
The Road to the Catmaster
The Department Store of Hearts’ Desires
Everybody’s Fond of Money
Tostig Amaral
Birds, Far Underground
His Own Strange Altar
Counsels, Councils, Consoles and Consuls
Appendix: Variant Texts