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Drunkboat is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith. It was first published in the magazine ''Amazing Stories'' in October 1963. It was included in ''Space Lords'', a collection of five stories by Cordwainer Smith published in May 1965. It appeared in ''The Instrumentality of Mankind'', a collection published in May 1979, and it was in ''The Rediscovery of Man'', a complete collection of his short stories, published in 1993.〔(All the science fiction stories and all the books ) cordwainer-smith.com, accessed 19 August 2015.〕 ==Background== The story was based on the writer's earlier "The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All", which in 1955 had failed to find a publisher. In 1963, he was asked to provide a story for ''Amazing Stories'', and the earlier story became a basis for "Drunkboat". "The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All", in a revised version made in 1958, was first published in the collection ''The Instrumentality of Mankind''.〔(Page 43 ) Karen L. Hellekson, ''The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith'', McFarland & Company 2001, accessed 23 August 2015.〕 Like other stories of Cordwainer Smith, "Drunkboat" is part of a future history, in a universe policed by the Instrumentality of Mankind. The Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality are benign but all-powerful. Their slogan is quoted in "Drunkboat": "Watch, but do not govern; stop war but do not wage it; protect, but do not control; and first, survive!" The story is partly based on "Le Bateau ivre" ("The Drunken Boat"), a poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud,〔 in which vivid imagery is used to describe the experience of a drifting boat as it fills with water. In Cordwainer Smith's story, this becomes the experience of a man who is sent through a special form of space known as .
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