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Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.
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* Haberman and Scanners from Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith.
According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.
Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".
For years, Cordwainer Smith had a pocket notebook which he had filled with ideas about The Instrumentality and additional stories in the series.
Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.
* 1975, The Best of Cordwainer Smith ( short sf stories )
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* 1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer ( d. 1966 )
* Scanners Live in Vain, a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith
It wasn't until I came back to science fiction and discovered Sturgeon -- but particularly Cordwainer Smith.
* August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, American author ( b. 1913 )
At the beginning of his short story " The Dead Lady of Clown Town ", science fiction author Cordwainer Smith wrote:
Under Pohl Galaxy had continued success, regularly publishing fiction by writers such as Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg.
* August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
* The " Santacara drug ", giving near-immortality in the science fiction universe of Cordwainer Smith
In the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind refers both to Smith's personal future history and universe and to the central government of humanity.
The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 ( now superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short stories ).
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* Paul Linebarger-Former Professor of Asian Studies, best known as a science fiction author under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith
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Before the production of the pilot episode was completed, Ellison invoked a clause in his contract to force the producers to use his alternative registered writer's name of " Cordwainer Bird " on the end credits.
The boundaries of the wards of Cheap, Cordwainer and Bread Street run along Cheapside and Poultry ; prior to boundary changes in 2003 the road was divided amongst Farringdon Within and Cripplegate wards in addition to the current three.
Ellison was unhappy with the rewritings, and he considered disowning the script by putting his " Cordwainer Bird " pseudonym on it.
The theme of a society composed solely of women, reproducing asexually, was also taken up in Poul Anderson in the novel " Virgin Planet ", Cordwainer Smith in the story " The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal ", and John Varley in the story " The Manikins ".
Twenty-seven years later, in 2003, he was named winner of that year's Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
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Cordwainer is still used to describe someone in the profession of shoemaking.
Among the characters he conceived of, but never used, were Strontium 90, Franklin Gothic Green, General History, and Cordwainer Bigeye.
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* Cordwainer Bird, a literary equivalent employed by author Harlan Ellison
* Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith ( 1995 )
* The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith ( 1993 )
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Condamine is also a fictional drug in the Instrumentality of Mankind universe of science-fiction author Cordwainer Smith.
* In two short stories, " The Lady Who Sailed The Soul " and " The Burning of the Brain ", science-fiction author Cordwainer Smith, refers to the lovers in passing.
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(" Cordwainer " is an archaic word for " A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather ; a shoemaker ", and a " smith " is " One who works in iron or other metals ; esp.
In the 1970s he edited The Best of Murray Leinster, The Best of Cordwainer Smith and The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun for Del Rey Books.
He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.
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* The planet Shayol appears in Cordwainer Smith's stories.
Cordwainer statue on Watling street, in the Cordwainer ward of the City of London.
There is a Cordwainer ward of the City of London, which is historically where most cordwainers lived and worked.
In the history of Cordwainer Smith's " Instrumentality " universe, the Instrumentality originated as the police force of the Jwindz or " perfect ones " on a post-nuclear-holocaust Earth.
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