Rereading "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith.
Smith didn't write many stories, but they linger in my mind far more than most. The first one I remember reading was "No, No, Not Rogov!" -- I remembered the story intensely, but forgot where I read it, or who the author was. "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons" was the same -- the story burned itself into my memory, but I couldn't remember where I read it or who it was by.
A couple of years ago the mystery resolved: there's a book that reprints his complete short works. Some of the titles have an amazing poetic liveness: "The Dead Lady of Clown Town", "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All".
http://www.amazon.com/Rediscovery-Man-Complete-Science-Cordwainer/dp/0915368560/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362700388&sr=1-1&keywords=cordwainer+smith
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