New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) Press

They've got some nice stuff they are putting and keeping in print: Cordwainer Smith, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, C.M. Kornbluth.

Here's the general link
http://www.nesfa.org/press/

and here is the link for their Choice series, which is what I'm talking about
http://www.nesfa.org/press/NESFAsChoiceBooks.html

I have the Cordwainer Smith Norstrilia, which is a nicely put-together (but expensive!0 book. Must check out some others.

Just read What Mad Universe and Martians, Go Home in Martians and Madness:The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown. Very nice.

What Mad Universe is great--very clever and funny.

Yeah, he was pretty good at coming up with a concept and then following through on it until the very end.

Liked Martians a lot more than when I read it as a teenager, now that I know the Johnny Mercer lyrics he's referring to.

really liked what mad universe.

They did right by Cordwainer Smith, publishing Norstrilia as James M mentioned, the short fiction in The Rediscovery of Man and a Concordance, in case you want to know how Lords Raumsog, Jestocost and Raumsog got their names. If Alan C. Elms ever finishes the promised biography I guess they can publish that too.

Also, do you guys know about "The Jet-Propelled Couch"?

Is that a Smith story? The Science Fiction Book Club published Nostrilia and some other NESFA titles for lower prices; prob all OOP now, but I've gotten several second-hand from Amazon.

It's a psychological case study about a government scientist named Kirk Allen who has been sent to treatment because he has become distracted from his work and is writing notes to himself using weird undecipherable symbols. Allen reveals to his analyst that during his fugues he is actually traveling in time to far-off planets and living out the adventures of his future life. Many people believe that Kirk Allen was actually Paul Linebarger aka Cordwainer Smith, including Alan C. Elms mentioned above. You can read it in a book called The Fifty Minute Hour by Robert Lindner or at the Harper's website if you have an account, http://www.harpers.org/archive/1954/12/0006789. You can read what Elms has to say here: http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/behindjetcouch.html.

I think most of the NEFSA titles are still in print.

My tale begins on a sultry June morning in Baltimore with a telephone call from a physician at a government installation in the Southwest. He said he was calling about a patient whom he wished to refer to me. “This fellow is a man in his thirties,” he said, “a research physicist with us out here. As far as I can tell, he’s perfectly normal in every way except for a lot of crazy ideas about living part of the time in another world–on another planet. Washington sent him out to do a key job, and until a few weeks ago he was going great guns. But lately he’s out of contact with the work so much and for so long that something’s got to he done about it.”

Note that Elms claims that the part about being a physicist in the Southwest is standard operating procedure for disguising a patients identity in a case history.

Vaguely remembered enjoying a story or two from William Tenn way back when and, after reading his intro to the Fredric Brown novel collection, got the impression that he was a slightly less pulpy, slightly more satirical protégé of Brown's so decided to look into this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5121YED2B6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg and the cover story, "Firewater," lived up to expectations. I guess the guy passed away last year, although I didn't know it until recently.

aargh http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5121YED2B6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Tenn's novel 'Of Men and Monsters' is all I've read of his, but it was really good

Looks like that is in the second volume, Here Comes Civilization.

Cordwainer Smith centennial this year:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/03/remembering-cordwainer-smith-full-time-sci-fi-author-part-time-earthling/274344/

This is also interesting: http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2010/09/21/tripping-cyborgs-and-organ-farms-the-fictions-of-cordwainer-smith/

Should also be noted that the winner of last year's Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award was none other than Fredric Brown.

—we are indeed ready for refraction. And that, I tell you, is good enough for those who billow and those who snap. But those who billow will be proven wrong as always, for in the snapping is the rolling and in the rolling is only truth.