Its Big and its Blinking..

What is The Big Blink? The Big Blink was the mysterious way to communicate between planets in the SciFi works of Cordwainer Smith. It is never described beyond the evocative name. I see a large searchlight with shutters that flashes light some how across across space, maybe through sub space. It would be like the ones used in a thousand World War II movies to create a mood for the ships of the fleet moving out of port to start the battle to end all battles. Since Smith was in World War II this may be what he thought of too.

Every good SciFi book that takes place in the future with travel between planets needs a way to talk instanty to each other but I think that it may be that we learn how to talk across the stars long before we ever figure out how to get out there.
Anyway this is just a first post, to set a little bit of the scene.

I am a big fan of Cordwainer Smith and his science ficiton. I have done my best to find every thing he wrote, and I belive i have seen every story mentiond in collections along with Norstralia, his novel. But this is not all l like. I am interested in any scince fiction that tries to give a hint of what might lie ahead in the future. I like to think of it as Trasnformative Fiction. And I will be blogging about that. I also love a good story even if mankind goes to the dogs and rots. I love some cyber punk, some magical fantasy, but the must be imaginative and well written,a nd so much out there is either one or the other.

Cordwainer Smith was one writer who managed to be both.