Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works.
In 1919, while at a boarding school in Hawaii, he was blinded in his right eye and it was replaced by a glass eye.
It was selected as one of the best science fiction short stories of the pre-Nebula Award period by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, appearing in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964.
Kennedy. ==Marriage and family== In 1936, Linebarger married Margaret Snow.
They had a daughter in 1942 and another in 1947.
In 1943, he was sent to China to coordinate military intelligence operations.
By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of major. In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served as Professor of Asiatic Studies.
They had a daughter in 1942 and another in 1947.
Burks), Van Nostrand 1956, "Draft statement of a ten-year China and Indochina policy, 1956–1966", Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania 1965, Essays on military psychological operations, Special Operations Research Office, American University ==Unpublished novels== 1939 (rewritten in 1947) General Death 1946 Journey in Search of a Destination 1947-1948 The Dead Can Bite (a.k.a.
They divorced in 1949. In 1950, Linebarger married again to Genevieve Collins; they had no children.
Jordan argued for the importance of Anglicanism to Smith's works back to 1949.
They divorced in 1949. In 1950, Linebarger married again to Genevieve Collins; they had no children.
But Linebarger's daughter Rosana Hart has indicated that he did not become an Anglican until 1950, and was not strongly interested in religion until later still.
Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection The Fifty-Minute Hour.
"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" was similarly honored, appearing in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. After "Scanners Live in Vain", Smith's next story did not appear for several years, but from 1955 until his death in 1966 his stories appeared regularly, for the most part in Galaxy Science Fiction.
Burks), Van Nostrand 1956, "Draft statement of a ten-year China and Indochina policy, 1956–1966", Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania 1965, Essays on military psychological operations, Special Operations Research Office, American University ==Unpublished novels== 1939 (rewritten in 1947) General Death 1946 Journey in Search of a Destination 1947-1948 The Dead Can Bite (a.k.a.
The introduction to the collection Rediscovery of Man notes that from around 1960 Linebarger became more devout and expressed this in his writing.
Another story claims that he accidentally left the notebook in a restaurant in Rhodes in 1965.
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works.
They remained married until his death from a heart attack in 1966, at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 53.
"The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" was similarly honored, appearing in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. After "Scanners Live in Vain", Smith's next story did not appear for several years, but from 1955 until his death in 1966 his stories appeared regularly, for the most part in Galaxy Science Fiction.
In 1969 CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr.
Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have received the information from science fiction fan and scholar Leon Stover.
His widow, Genevieve Collins Linebarger, was interred with him on November 16, 1981. ==Case history debate== Linebarger is long rumored to have been "Kirk Allen", the fantasy-haunted subject of "The Jet-Propelled Couch," a chapter in psychologist Robert M.
81-Q" (rewritten version, 1993) ===Book format=== 1947, Ria (writing as "Felix C.
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