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	Instrumentality of Mankind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the fictional works of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind is the central government of the human race.
		The Instrumentality may be compared to the Plan of Man in the Starchild Trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson.
		The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title of a collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind (145 words)

	TYhe Visionary Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
		Smith's Instrumentality stories are intoxicating storytelling that rival the conceptual strangeness of A.E. Van Vogt (whom Smith was very appreciative of) while hinting at a future history that is almost Stapletonian.
		The Instrumentality stories are actually the story of the Rediscovery of Mankind, where the future takes a hard look at itself and attempts to set things which have gone awry right.
		The beauty of the Instrumentality stories is a message that, although the future makes us, it is perhaps possible to step back and draw on the resources of millennia of evolution to refresh our humanity, and that it is our flaws which are often our greatest strengths.
	www.strangewords.com /cSmith.html (809 words)

	Cats, cruelty and children
		Over it all presides the Instrumentality, a benign but absolute dictatorship composed of a ruling nobility who use their technological and telepathic powers to maintain the status quo and to dispense an abstract and dispassionate justice.
		A crucial element of the Rediscovery of Man is the reduction of the human lifespan to something closer to that of the underpeople, so that true humans may live as intensely as their animal-derived fellow citizens.
		The embargo on religion under the Instrumentality means that Christianity has reverted to the form that it must have had in the early church.
	www.raingod.com /angus/Writing/Essays/Literary/Smith.html (3726 words)

	Cordwainer Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Instrumentality of Mankind rules the planet and any planet later inhabited by humanity.
		The Instrumentality attempts to revive old cultures and languages in a process known as the Rediscovery of Man.
		This rediscovery can be seen either as the initial period when humankind emerges from a mundane utopia and the nonhuman underpeople gain freedom from slavery, or as a continuing process begun by the Instrumentality, encompassing the whole cycle, where mankind is constantly at risk of falling back to its bad, old ways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cordwainer_Smith (1195 words)

	Cordwainer Smith Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The bulk of his stories is set some 14 000 years in the future, starting on Earth.
		The Instrumentality of Mankind is then set to rule the planet and latter any planet inhabited by men.
		Planoforming ships moving between the stars, and humans telepathically linked with cats defend them from the attacks of monsters in the dark spaces between the stars - humans perceive them as dragons, the cats perceive them as gigantic rats - dispersing them with the flash of small atomic weapons.
	powerandresponsibility.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cordwainer_smith.html (442 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Cordwainer Smith
		Almost all of his SF, including his first story, is part of a series known collectively as the "Instrumentality of Mankind," which covers several millenia of man's future both on Earth and in the exploration of space.
		After centuries of the benevolent rule of the Instrumentality, humanity had become stagnant, adrift in a bland utopia free of the fear of death, disease, or the burden of labor, but also ignorant of hope and freedom.
		The Lord Redlady, the Instrumentality's representative at Rod's final trial, deems his talent to be one that deserves further study, and prevails on the other judges to spare Rod's life.
	www.members.tripod.com /templetongate/csmith.htm (2035 words)

	Cordwainer Smith and His Remarkable Science Fiction: The Rediscovery of Man
		After defeat, after disappointment, after ruin and reconstruction, mankind had leapt among the stars.
		There was the Instrumentality, with its unceasing labor to keep man man. And there were the citizens who walked in the boulevards before the Rediscovery of Man. The citizens were happy.
		These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles.
	www.cordwainer-smith.com /rediscovery.htm (698 words)

	Noramber
		Old North Amber is the richest planet of the millions ruled by the Lords of the Instrumentality.
		The golden age of mankind has matured into a quiet decadence: people live out their alloted four hundred years in luxury and boredom.
		As per longstanding Instrumentality policy, the lot of them were rather brutality put down by Lord Bleys.
	www.ralf.org /~colomon/amber/noramber.html (889 words)

	Instrum3ntality_X's Xanga Site
		Mankind cannot live without being surrounded by others.
		That is why life is sad and empty.
		The body and mind are made of brittle components as well.
	www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=Instrum3ntality_X (125 words)

	Animeboards.com Forums - purpose of instrumentality?
		My opinion is that it was motivated by the selfish desires of individual men who wanted something for themselves and decided to neglect the wishes and desires of the rest of the world in which it would effect.
		Fortunatly, when humanity was forced to decide, the instrumental decision was placed upon Shinji, not Gendo (I believe that each individual makes their own choice, but is forced to view the analysis of the one who starts Instrumentality and their decision will be based heavily on his decision.
		The purpose of the instrumentality of mankind is complementation.
	animeboards.com /showthread.php?t=24052 (2136 words)

	Instrumentality
		The instrumentality of mankind is pretty much what it sounds like.
		With the instrumentality of man it is truly possible to run away without any negative consequences.
		This is why instrumentality is often referred to in the series as becoming god.
	users.bigpond.net.au /magi/Characters/instrumentality.htm (522 words)

	Political and Social-Themed Science Fiction
		This message recalls Cordwainer Smith's themes in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history.
		The rest of his work on the Instrumentality of Mankind was all short stories, and those are collected in this work, The Rediscovery of Man.
		However, as the eons drag on, the Instrumentality of Mankind becomes stagnant and is overthrown; hence the "rediscovery of man".
	acm.cs.umn.edu /~look/book-collection-essay.html (4798 words)

	No, No, Not Rogov! by Cordwainer Smith
		Nearly all of Smith's science fiction takes place in a consistent future history, "The Instrumentality of Mankind," comprising many stories and one novel, Norstrilia (1975).
		The series chronicles events in the millennia-long struggle between the human Instrumentality and the Underpeople, intelligent animals biologically transformed into humanlike forms.
		It is also a link between the present and his visionary future of the Instrumentality.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Rogov.html (336 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		And then there is the Instrumentality of Mankind—the secretive, subtle and powerful government of Earth.
		Under the name Cordwainer Smith, he wrote over two dozen SF stories, mostly in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history, and a single SF novel (another Instrumentality story), Norstrilia.
		However, Norstrilia is a vital work in the development of SF and an indispensable section of the Instrumentality of Mankind series, as well as a good novel.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue284/classic.html (882 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		* _The Instrumentality of Mankind (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32301-7, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $2.95, 238pp, pb) [Instrumentality of Mankind] Reissue (Del Rey 1979) collection.
		* _The Instrumentality of Mankind (Gollancz 0-575-04459-4, Mar ’89, £11.95, 238pp, hc, cover by John Avon) [Instrumentality of Mankind] Reprint (Del Rey 1979) sf collection.
		* _Norstrilia (NESFA Press 0-915368-61-7, Feb ’95 [Mar ’95], $20.95, 249pp, hc, cover by John Berkey) [Instrumentality of Mankind] Reprint (Del Rey 1975) SF novel, with an appendix of the material changed when the novel was split up for magazine publication, published as two volumes, then later recombined.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b441.html (2775 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Instrumentality of Mankind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His characters and situations, as well as language and style of writing, lend themselves to such strong imaginings, a state of dreaming in some cases, that the possibilities, however far fetched, may be, just maybe could happen.
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575044594 (171 words)

	Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Colonel, United States Army
		Travelled alot in the 50's and 60's with his wife in spite of his being very ill. He was very impressed with Australia and hoped to retire there but died of a heart attack at age 53.
		All but 5 stories are of the Instrumentality of mankind.
		Pierce, John J., The Instrumentality Series, in The Great Science Fiction Series, edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander, Harper and Row, New York, 1980, 420 pp.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /linebarg.htm (1116 words)

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		"The instrumentality of man project" was nothing but brainwashing.
		Instrumentality CASE 3 Shinji Ikari FEAR Asuka: I fear that I will disappear.
		Ikari: And so via the instrumentality mankind must fill and compliment each other.
	users.bigpond.net.au /nge/scripts/eva26.txt (2696 words)

	Knox Bronson's Instrumentality Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finally, under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, Linebarger wrote a whole series of stories and novellas about a time in the far future when a suppressed Christian underground (the Holy Insurgency) faces a stultifying humanistic hierarchy (the Instrumentality of Mankind).
		The term "instrumentality" in Anglican theology refers to the priest who celebrates the sacrament: He is the "instrumentality" of God.
		Linebarger's Instrumentality of Mankind is a kind of benevolent humanism that functions like a secular church, like the communist party, in overseeing human development.
	www.instrumentality.com /cordwainer.html (4490 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		In Paul McAuley's "The Invisible Country," a muscle-for-hire street tough of uncommon intelligence, operating in a biologically diverse near-future, finds that his latest client holds the secret to refashioning mankind's basic nature.
		An idyllic future far when reproduction is far removed from our own conventional means between two sexes is limned in Robert Reed's "Whiptail." Cordwainer Smith's classic "A Planet Named Shayol" details the bizarre fate of the most reviled criminals during the time known as the Instrumentality of Mankind, and their eventual redemption.
		This book is the 24th such compilation by the smoothly oiled anthologizing team of novelist Jack Dann and editor Gardner Dozois, and by now they have their act down to a fine science.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue198/books.html (607 words)

	Earthport Tower, Meeya Meefla, Old Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manhome itself, Earthport is the Headquarters of the Instrumentality of Mankind.
		After visiting the central arm hub and the headquarters of the Instrumentality, you can go up to the landing roof lobby at the top.
		The large spacecraft hangar on this segment is reserved for the Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality.
	www.fourth-millennium.net /cordwainer-vr/earthport-tower.html (228 words)

	Book of Honor -- Smith Links
		Smith is best known for his short stories, most of which take place in the Instrumentality of Mankind universe, sometimes hundreds or thousands of years apart.
		Reading Smith's stories as a teenager, I kind of assumed that his Instrumentality of Mankind knew what it was doing.
		Jestacost and the other Lords were like John Marshall or Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court, overseeing many and many an age of human civilization.
	www.potlatch-sf.org /potlatch12/boh.html (698 words)

	Recommended Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His only novel, Norstrilia, concerns the exploits of Rod McBan and his quest to acrue sufficient funds via a stock-exchange accumulator to purchase Old Earth, where he eventually finds his heart's desire in an ancient rare postage stamp (one of the ones with the aeroplane printed upside down) and the cat girl C'Mell.
		His other works, short stories and a couple of novellas are also set within the same universe, dominated by the Instrumentality of Mankind, a benign dictatorship that directs the lives of humanity throughout the galaxies.
		This collection of short stories is the best possible introduction to the universe of Smith, and the commentry throughout the book does a great deal to explain the chronological events within the setting, which does evolve over time.
	www.siliconhenge.com /recommendedreading/reviews/rediscoveryofman.html (424 words)

	Classical Values :: Lords of the Instrumentality
		We knew that when the diseases had killed the statistically correct number of people, they would be turned off; when the accident rate rose too high, it would stop without our knowing why.
		Mercer felt a sting in the thigh, as though a sharp instrument had touched him lightly.
		That’s from “Under Old Earth”, Smith’s last work, and to my mind not his best, but it captures the Instrumentality of Mankind and its “ruthless benevolence” in a nutshell.
	www.classicalvalues.com /archives/002128.html (2454 words)

	Feature \| The Essential Science Fiction Library
		Almost all of Cordwainer Smith's fiction shared a setting: The Instrumentality of Mankind, a space-faring far-future culture that has rediscovered the distant past (our recorded history) and has oddly incorporated some of its elements.
		Theologically complex, psychologically unsettling, biologically disturbing and poetically charged, this universe is filled with powerful telepaths, genetically engineered cross-species changelings, bizarre technologies, and perplexing enigmas.
		This volume collects all 27 Instrumentality stories and a handful of unrelated pieces to comprise Smith's complete SF short stories.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/essentialSF.html (2666 words)

	Visitors From Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This music all blends together and forms a hidden music of humanity, which Smith calls the Instrumentality of Mankind.
		It is unclear whether he was already planning these sf stories, and based the name and concept in Ria on this sf government, or whether the reverse was true.
		It refers instead to its members being the "Instruments" of humanity, carrying out their wishes, and achieving their goals.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/boucher.htm (6290 words)

	Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews #8: Cordwainer Smith
		Things were too safe and too stable for too long, and the result was stagnation and malaise.
		The Instrumentality -- the quirky meritocracy that rules the Earth (and is a power through much of the galaxy) -- decided to shake things up, reintroduce risk and change.
		The collection I've seen most often is the Del Rey reprinting from the late seventies, which printed the stories in two volumes, "The Best of Cordwainer Smith", and "The Instrumentality of Mankind".
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/008.htm (614 words)

	The Rediscovery of Man (S.F.Masterworks S.) — Compare Product Prices & Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But you do not know the beginning." This Millennium SF Masterworks collection opens with Smith's remarkable 1950 debut story "Scanners Live in Vain" and continues with tales of the Instrumentality of Mankind, near-immortal overlords who wield the terrible power of Imperial Inquisitors in old China.
		Cats appear frequently: as essential fighters against space-borne horrors in "The Game of Rat and Dragon", subjected to forced evolution in "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal", uplifted (like other animals) to human shape as human's slaves in "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" and other haunting tales of these "underpeople".
		The stories throb with crazy rhythms and dangerous music, notably the very strange "Under Old Earth"; Joan of Arc's fate is echoed in "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"; one of the weirdest Hells ever imagined--the Instrumentality's ultimate punishment--comes nightmarishly alive in "A Planet Named Shayol".
	www.onlinereviewers.co.uk /store/asinsearch_1857988191.htm (447 words)

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