"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard"
| Title | "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" |
| Year for Search | 1961 |
| Authors | [Linebarger], [Paul Myron Anthony] |
| Tertiary Authors | Smith, Cordwainer [pseud.] |
| Secondary Title | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 20.6 (121) |
| Pagination | 5-34 |
| Date Published | June 1961 |
| ISSN Number | 00024-984X |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A future that rejects organized perfection in the name of freedom, such as the freedom to get sick and die, to be injured, or to be unhappy, finds that the new society has as many difficulties as the old one. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K.), second series 2.11 (October 1961): 86-112; in his you will never be the same (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1963), 115-42; in The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1975), 259-86; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 49-73; and in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), 375-99. |
| Info Notes | See Lorraine Schein’s poem “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard. In Memory: Cordwainer Smith.” In her The Futurist’s Mistress (Bay City, MI: Mayapple Press, 2006), 11. |
| Pseudonym | Cordwainer Smith [pseud.] |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | The author (1913-66) was Professor of Asiatic Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies |
| Full Text | 1961 [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-66). “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard.” By Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 20.6 (121) (June 1961): 5-34. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K.), second series 2.11 (October 1961): 86-112; in his you will never be the same (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1963), 115-42; in The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1975), 259-86; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 49-73; and in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), 375-99. Merril, PSt A future that rejects organized perfection in the name of freedom, such as the freedom to get sick and die, to be injured, or to be unhappy, finds that the new society has as many difficulties as the old one. The author was Professor of Asiatic Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. See Lorraine Schein’s poem “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard. In Memory: Cordwainer Smith.” In her The Futurist’s Mistress (Bay City, MI: Mayapple Press, 2006), 11. |
