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Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.
At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents ' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.
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.
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.
Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method ( the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation ) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith.
Quite unhappy with the lack of formal science education at Eton College, Maynard Smith took it upon himself to develop an interest in Darwinian evolutionary theory and mathematics, after having read the work of old Etonian J. B. S.
* 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.
* May 5 – A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University ; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
During the academic year 2005-6, he was briefly the Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the first director of the school's new Center for Theology and Science ( since replaced by prominent creationist Kurt Wise ).< ref >< cite > Creationist to will lead seminary science center </ cite > Peter Smith.
Later in the 20th century several British pathologists, Bernard Spilsbury, Francis Camps, Sydney Smith and Keith Simpson pioneered new forensic science methods in Britain.
Smith graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1991 with a degree in philosophy and political science.
The movie Men in Black, a popular 1997 science fiction thriller, required Agent J, played by Will Smith, to remove his ten fingerprints by putting his hands on a metal ball, an action deemed necessary by the MIB agency to remove the identity of its agents.
* William Smith ( South African ), South African television science and mathematics teacher
* Charles H. Smith, historian of science
* George H. Smith ( fiction author ) ( 1922 – 1996 ), science fiction author
* George O. Smith ( 1911 – 1981 ), science fiction author
At the beginning of his short story " The Dead Lady of Clown Town ", science fiction author Cordwainer Smith wrote:
On Sunday, July 4, Smith traveled to Bloomington, Indiana, where he killed Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean doctoral student in computer science at Indiana University, who was on his way to the Korean United Methodist Church.
Small Soldiers is a 1998 American action / science fiction film directed by Joe Dante, starring Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella and Tommy Lee Jones.
* August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer " Doc " Smith.
Lester Neil Smith III ( born May 12, 1946 ), better known as L. Neil Smith, is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist.

Smith and fiction
From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.
Aged 44, Smith now virtually ceased writing fiction.
Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).
George Mackay Brown from Orkney, and Iain Crichton Smith from Lewis, wrote both poetry and prose fiction shaped by their distinctive island backgrounds.
" Reading and playing: what makes interactive fiction unique " p. 276-298. in Williams, J. P., & Smith, J. H. ( 2007 ).
James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.
However, Smith says " if I had to be associated with one character in fiction, I will always be thrilled that it was Lisa Simpson.
Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.
* In the fiction book Double or Nothing ( 2007 ), a part of the Young Bond series, James is in the cemetery where Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill him.
* Clark Ashton Smith, fantasy fiction writer
Smith was the founder and editor of " South Today ," a journal of fiction and opinion, both literary and political, that was the first magazine in the South to publish stories and articles by black writers.

Smith and novel
At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.
* Cyrus Smith, the leading character in Jules Verne's novel Mysterious Island
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.
* The Power of the Sword, novel by Wilbur Smith
This period is dramatised in the novel Summer in February by Jonathan Smith.
Smith is currently working on a crime novel set in London.
In the novel, historical revisionism is the principal method of propaganda used by the Ministry of Truth, where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a historical revisionist.
* Smith, a 1932 novel by Warwick Deeping
* Smith, a 1967 novel by Leon Garfield
Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.
British reviewers widely condemned the book for immorality, and the novel was so controversial that W H Smith pulled that month's edition of Lippincott's from its bookstalls in railway stations.
This novel is included with Turnabout and Rain in the Doorway in The Thorne Smith 3-Decker ( Sun Dial Press, 1933 ).
In her novel Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova.
Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.
Charlotte Bronte referred to the novel in a letter to William Smith Williams on 13 September 1849, noting that " I have read David Copperfield ; it seems to me very good — admirable in some parts.
* Sasquatch ( book ), a 1998 novel written by Roland Smith
Perhaps the most confusing of all the various formats that are lumped together under the term dime novel are the so-called “ thick-book ” series, largely published by Street & Smith, J. S. Ogilvie and Arthur Westbrook.
Peter Ruber, 2000 ); The Far Side of Nowhere by Nelson Bond ( 2002 ); The Cleansing by John D. Harvey ( a horror novel, 2002 ); Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith ( ed.
** Leon Garfield's novel Smith
The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.
In the former novel, Lazarus is revealed at the end of the novel as the father of protagonist Colin " Richard Ames " Campbell ; whereas in the latter novel, Maureen as narrator tells a somewhat different version of Lazarus ' visit to Earth in 1916-18 and reveals that Lazarus ( as Woodrow " Bill " Smith ) was the backup pilot of the first lunar expedition.
* Pongo, Dalmatian dog character in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations:

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