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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.
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.
It wasn't until I came back to science fiction and discovered Sturgeon -- but particularly Cordwainer Smith.
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.
* 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of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 ( now superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short stories ).
* Paul Linebarger-Former Professor of Asian Studies, best known as a science fiction author under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith
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