# C. Smith ranking *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Sep 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *12 Sep 1997, 12:07* My first encounter with Smith was in an old Judy Merril anthology with "A Planet Named Shayol." It knocked me sideways---and I was far from being an infernologist at the time! Agreed: start with the mature work. Don't forget "The Dead Lady of Clown Town." Or even "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons." Don't read those Casher O'Neill novellas first as the Rat suggests---they're for after you know the score. -alga- --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *12 Sep 1997, 12:40 · follows Alice Turner* > At 12:07 PM 9/12/97 -0400, you wrote: > "A Planet Named Shayol"... knocked me sideways... Don't forget "The Dead Lady >of Clown Town." Or even "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons." Yes yes yes. There's just so much good Smith. :-) ``` Kevin Maroney | Crossover Technologies kmaroney at crossover.com | (212) 777-1190 ``` ---