A best of Cordwainer Smith, no doubt.
This includes a timeline of The Instrumentality Of Mankind.
To quote the end of John J. Pierce's introduction:
"The work of Cordwainer Smith will always retain its enigmas. But that is part of its appeal."
However, this is outstanding, the story average is 4.04 thanks to not one, but two 5 star stories, in Scanners Live In Vain, and Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons.
Smith is one of those amazing throw you in the middle of wonder kind of writers. (This is partly why I like Terry Dowling so much, someone who actually is one of the Lords of the Instrumentality.) These two gentlemen have two of the highest rated SF collections I have ever read, the other being a writer with a different style completely, in Greg Egan.
Absolutely worth reading.
Best of Cordwainer Smith : Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Game of Rat and Dragon - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Burning of the Brain - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : Golden the Ship Was Oh! Oh! Oh! - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Dead Lady of Clown Town - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : Under Old Earth - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - Cordwainer Smith
Best of Cordwainer Smith : A Planet Named Shayol - Cordwainer Smith
Monopoly is bad, and worth doing something about.
5 out of 5
Solo starnaut sheila's suitor.
4 out of 5
Another actual use for a live cat. Fight you little bastard.
4 out of 5
Mind destruction manoeuvre rescue transfer.
4 out of 5
Lost planet female cancer transsexual aggression solution is timeslip cat kill cull.
4 out of 5
Time for war, duckie.
4 out of 5
Witch woman and dead robot animal trial.
4.5 out of 5
Too happy is bad.
3.5 out of 5
Old North Australia's mutant mad mink secret defense doesn't pussyfoot around with thieves and murderers. Or, Stop, You'll Eat Yourself.
5 out of 5
Hard to believe in France.
3 out of 5
Underpeople Lord assisted execution escapage.
4.5 out of 5
Pain punishment makes skin way more deep.
3.5 out of 5
5 out of 5
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