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The Game of Rat and Dragon
| Author: | Cordwainer Smith |
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Galaxy Science Fiction, 1955 |
| Series: | The Instrumentality of Mankind |
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| Book Type: | Short Story |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Military SF |
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Synopsis
Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story
This short story originally appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:
- The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 (1956), edited by T. E. Dikty
- Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories (1958), edited by Edmund Crispin
- The Third Galaxy Reader (1958), edited by H. L. Gold
- The Mirror of Infinity: A Critics' Anthology of Science Fiction (1970), edited by Robert Silverberg
- A Science Fiction Argosy (1972), edited by Damon Knight
- Supernatural Cats (1972), edited by Claire Necker
- As Tomorrow Becomes Today (1974), edited by Charles W. Sullivan
- Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology (1978), edited by Patricia Warrick, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph Olander
- The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here (1979), edited by James Gunn
- Fantastic Creatures (1981), edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
- Magicats! (1984), edited by Jack Dann and Garder Dozois
- The Great SF Stories 17 (1955) (1988), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov
- Space-Fighters (1988), edited by Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joe Haldeman
- A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1997), edited by Robert Silverberg
- The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Harry Turtledove
- The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002), edited by Pat Cadigan
- The Space Opera Renaissance (2006), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- The Mammoth Book of SF Wars (2012), edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates
- The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- Infinite Stars (2017), edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
The story is included in the collections:
- You Will Never Be The Same (1963)
- Under Old Earth and Other Explorations (1970)
- The Best of Cordwainer Smith (1975), reissued as The Rediscovery of Man in the SF Masterworks series in 1999.
- The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith (1993)
- When the People Fell (2007)
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