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    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. Linebarger...
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  • The Best of Cordwainer Smith is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Cordwainer Smith, edited by J. J. Pierce. It was first...
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    Davis Jr. The "Cordwainer Bird" moniker is a tribute to fellow SF writer Paul M. A. Linebarger, better known by his pen name, Cordwainer Smith. The origin...
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    The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honors underread science fiction and fantasy authors, with the intention of drawing renewed attention to the winners...
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  • The Rediscovery of Man (category Short story collections by Cordwainer Smith)
    of Cordwainer Smith (ISBN 0-915368-56-0) is a 1993 book containing the complete collected short fiction of American science fiction author Cordwainer Smith...
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  • Instrumentality of Mankind (category Works by 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...
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    Scanners Live in Vain (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    story by American writer Cordwainer Smith (pen name of American writer Paul Linebarger). It was the first story in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind...
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  • Syracuse (d. 2011) 1913 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer (d. 1977) 1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American sinologist, author, and academic (d. 1966) 1915 – Leonard...
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  • Bear's Blood Music and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix. The stories of Cordwainer Smith, including his first and most famous Scanners Live in Vain, also foreshadow...
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     Yen Lo, of the Pavlov Institute." The science fiction stories of Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966), a U.S. Army...
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    known by his nom de plume, Cordwainer Smith) was long rumored to have been the original "Kirk Allen". According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this...
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    Childhood's End), and Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, writing under the name Cordwainer Smith. Doris Lessing, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in literature...
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  • Norstrilia (category Novels by Cordwainer Smith)
    by American writer Paul Linebarger, published under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. It is the only novel he published under this name, which he used for...
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    back to science fiction and discovered Sturgeon – but particularly Cordwainer Smith. ... I read the story "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", and it just made me...
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  • The Game of Rat and Dragon (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    Rat and Dragon" is a science fiction short story by American author Cordwainer Smith, written in 1954 and published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1955. It...
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  • in a room. There was a knock on the door ... The story won the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award; James Nicoll, however, describes it as "fairly conventional"...
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    continued success, regularly publishing fiction by writers such as Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg. Pohl never won...
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  • 1960s." Graham Sleight has described it as a "revisionist take" on Cordwainer Smith's story "Scanners Live in Vain". The narrative involves a world where...
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    Ron Hilger. Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award "A Wine of Wizardry" Michael Dirda, "A Journey to the Fantastic Realms of Clark Ashton Smith" Archived April...
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  • the Conqueror.' Hellekson, Karen L. (2001). The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 114. ISBN 9780786450350. Cross, Ronald...
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  • Atomsk (novel) (category Novels by Cordwainer Smith)
    "Carmichael Smith", one of several pseudonyms used by American writer Paul Linebarger, who wrote fiction most prolifically as Cordwainer Smith. Drawing on...
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  • The Dead Lady of Clown Town (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    Lady of Clown Town" is a science fiction novella by American writer Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally...
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  • Think Blue, Count Two (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    "Think Blue, Count Two" is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. The story revolves...
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  • "Scanners Live in Vain", science fiction story written in 1945 by Cordwainer Smith Scanner, the stage name of British electronic musician Robin Rimbaud...
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    Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) Cordwainer Smith (1913–1966) (pseudonym of Paul M.A. Linebarger) E. E. Smith (1890–1965) Evelyn E. Smith (1922–2000) George...
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    Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    Kittons" is a classic science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith, first published in Galaxy Magazine in 1961, and partly based on Ali...
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    Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (category Short stories by Cordwainer Smith)
    "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" is a science fiction story by American writer Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of Mankind universe, concerning the opening...
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    a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2002, he received the Cordwainer Smith Foundation's Rediscovery award. The Oklahoma Department of Libraries...
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    Frederik Pohl 13 May 1999 1-85798-818-3 1977 10 The Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer Smith 1-85798-819-1 1928–1993 11 Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon 10 June...
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  • (NESFA) for publishing "Himself in Anachron", a short story written by Cordwainer Smith and sold to Ellison for the book by his widow, but later reached an...
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