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  Cordwainer Smith at AllExperts
His father was Paul M. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
Linebarger's stories are unusual, even, arguably, by the standards of science fiction, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.
Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym "Felix C. Forrest", which he used in addition to "Cordwainer Smith": Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger, his godson, that he adopt the Chinese name "Lin Ba-lo" (林白楽), which may be roughly translated as "Forest of Incandescent Bliss".
en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/cordwainer_smith.htm   (1715 words)

  
  Cordwainer Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Paul M.W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
As a child, Linebarger was blinded in his left eye; the vision in his remaining eye was impaired by infection.
Linebarger's stories are strange even by the standards of science fiction, sometimes written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cordwainer_Smith   (1174 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Cordwainer Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Linebarger was born in born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Paul M.W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), based in Washington D.C., is one of the worlds leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education.
Regardless, Linebarger's works are sometimes included in analyses of Christianity in fiction, along with the works of authors such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cordwainer-Smith   (2734 words)

  
 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Colonel, United States Army
Paul Linebarger was born in 1913, the grandson of a clergyman.
Paul Linebarger grew up in the retinue of Sun Yat Sen, for his father stayed with Sen during his exile in Japan and throughout his career in China.
At the age of six, young Paul was blinded in his left eye as a result of an accident while playing, and the resulting infection damaged his right eye as well, causing him distress throughout his entire life.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /linebarg.htm   (1124 words)

  
 LINEBARGER, Paul - personal data
Linebarger's roll was often veiled in the areas of propaganda, psychological warfare, and oriental affairs.
Paul's covert work was dangerous because he was well known from his parental connection, a military man, and because he looked like a spy.
Linebarger was hawk featured, slight, wore the gray fedora hat, and had tinted glasses because of his visual problems (may even have been unable to resist wearing a patch occasionally).
www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/smith_c.html   (591 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Linebarger was the son of an American diplomat, and spent a considerable part of his childhood in the Far East.
Forrest" - the ideograms in Chinese for "Linebarger" translate roughly as "Forest of Incandescent Bliss".
As a child, he was blinded in his left eye; his vision in the remaining eye was impaired by infection.
cordwainer-smith.biography.ms   (522 words)

  
 Knox Bronson's Instrumentality Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Linebarger does indicate in his prefaces and in his frivolous prelude to Norstrilia that his writing is, in part at least, for "fun".
Linebarger was very concerned about what he called the "Pleasure Revolution"; that is, the tendency to use technology to reduce the risks of life, the pain of expanding dominion and growth.
Linebarger's heroes are the men and women who "push the outside of the envelope" (to draw a phrase from Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff), experiencing the pain and risk of dominion, and sometimes suffering permanent damage as a result.
www.instrumentality.com /cordwainer.html   (4490 words)

  
 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger was born in 1913, the grandson of a clergyman.
Paul Linebarger grew up in the retinue of Sun Yat-Sen, for his father stayed with Sun during his exile in Japan and throughout his career in China.
He served as a second lieutenant in the Army during World War II and as a Far East specialist he was involved in the formation of the Office of War Information and of the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.
www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/smith/smith_bio.html   (362 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith
Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Paul M.W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
Linebarger held a faculty appointment at Duke University from 1937 to 1946, where he began producing highly regarded works on Far Eastern affairs.
Regardless, Linebarger's works are sometimes included in analyses of Christianity in fiction, along with the works of authors such as C.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Cordwainer_Smith.php   (1234 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Cordwainer Smith
Linebarger was the son of an American diplomat, and spent a considerable part of his childhood in the Far East.
Forrest" - the ideograms in Chinese for "Linebarger" translate roughly as "Forest of Incandescent Bliss".
As a child, he was blinded in his left eye; his vision in the remaining eye was impaired by infection.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cordwainer_Smith   (592 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His book Psychological Warfare based on his work in the of propaganda during WWII was published under his own name.
Linebarger was the son of an American and spent a considerable part of his in the Far East.
Cordwainer Smith (whose real name was Paul Linebarger) in his fiction invented a truly marvelous, internally consistent mythological fantasy world, disguised as science-fiction.
www.freeglossary.com /Cordwainer_Smith   (748 words)

  
 Internet Book List :: Author Information: Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was born Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, on July 11, 1913, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Linebarger grew up in a variety of places, including Washington, D.C., the German resort of Baden Baden, and China.
He remarried Genevieve Collins, and was very active as a cold warrior, working for the CIA on the side through many of the years that he was a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. In 1952, he was working in Mexico City with Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame.
www.iblist.com /author405.htm   (397 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith Pronunciation Guide ( Paul Linebarger ) by Alan C. Elms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the Cordwainer Smith stories, Paul Linebarger drew directly from many languages for the names of characters, planets, etc. In certain instances the names are multi-lingual puns; in others, their origins remain obscure.
Linebarger played with the changes in pronunciation of current-day names that might occur over thousands of years of future history: e.
Linebarger: I list this one first, even though it doesn't appear in the Cordwainer Smith stories, because I've often heard it mispronounced and because anyone who talks much about the stories needs to know how to pronounce their author's real name correctly.
www.ulmus.net /ace/csmith/cspronunciation.cfm   (379 words)

  
 epilog - Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966) Amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Paul wuchs im Gefolge von Sun Yat Sen auf, sowohl in China als auch während dessen Exil in Japan.
Paul Linebarger war erst 23 Jahre alt, als er den Ph.D. für politische Wissenschaften an der John Hopkins University erhielt, jener Universität, an der er später selbst viele Jahre als Professor Asiatische Politik lehrte.
Paul Linebarger war ein überzeugter und strenggläubiger Christ.
www.epilog.de /Person/S/Sm/Smith_Cordwainer_1913.htm   (653 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORdiner Smith – was the pen-name used by the American author Dr. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works.
The Orient was also the origin for another pen-name that he used for some stories, "Felix C. Forrest" – the ideograms in Chinese for "Linebarger" translate roughly as "Forest of Incandescent Bliss".
Linebarger's stories are strange even by the standards of science fiction, sometimes written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7105   (570 words)

  
 A Psychologist Investigates Cordwainer Smith Cordwainer Smith, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, Japanese translations of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During the course of my early research on Paul Linebarger, which focused on establishing whether he was the patient in "The Jet-Propelled Couch," I came to realize that Linebarger would be a fascinating biographical subject even if he had not been that patient.
As I am sure my readers in Japan know, Paul Linebarger was not only a brilliant and influential writer of science fiction, but was also an author of several excellent non-SF novels, an expert on psychological warfare, and a serious scholar of 20th-century Chinese history and government.
Although Paul Linebarger never lived in Japan for an extended period, he often visited your country, admired various aspects of Japanese culture, and had several Japanese friends.
www.ulmus.net /library/articlespage.cfm?ID=93   (1235 words)

  
 Biography and Memories of Paul M. A. Linebarger, who was Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was born Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, on July 11, 1913, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Of course, none of you would ever take anything, but I want you to know that I am putting the evil eye on whoever takes anything.." He had been holding a spare glass eye in his mouth, in one cheek, and he moved it around so it was protruding from his lips.
Linebarger turned his wartime experiences into Psychological Warfare, still regarded as the most authoritative text in the field.
www.cordwainer-smith.com /remember.htm   (2294 words)

  
 Lenoir-Rhyne vs Carson-Newman (Apr 07, 2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
4 2 1 1 1 1 12 0 0 Linebarger dh............
Linebarger advanced to second on a passed ball.
5 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0-0 1-4 0-1 1-3 2-3 0-1 1-1 0-0 1-1 1 0 0 2 0 Linebarger dh.....
www.lrc.edu /athletics/baseball/2002/2002bbstats/game39.htm   (2049 words)

  
 epilog - Das Linebarger-Universum - Zum Werk von Cordwainer Smith - SF Personality
Aber was aus Linebargers Biographie bekannt ist, scheint zu passen.
Linebarger wurde christlich, als Glied der anglikanischen Hochkirche erzogen.
Mythos schließt Erklärung aus: In seinen besten Erzählungen erklärt Linebarger wenig, allenfalls das Nötigste; er springt in die Handlung, ruft Umstände, Vorgeschichte auf, als seien sie altvertraut.
www.epilog.de /PersData/S/Smith_Cordwainer_1913/Linebarger_Universum_AC16.htm   (1765 words)

  
 John & Mary Linebarger
John Linebarger and Mary Hoot were born about the time of the Revolution in Pennsylvania from where their families traveled to North Carolina.
Lineberger, Linebarger, Leinberger, but there was a differentiation in the mainly Linebarger and mainly Lineberger lineages.
There seem to be at least three bunches of families not yet connectable: the Linebergers apparently from the descendants of the "three brothers" via Virginia, the Linebargers of Pennsylvania from which came John Linebarger, and Peter Lineberger who seems connected to the Linebargers--even these assumptions are debatable.
www.geocities.com /aaronyalma/linebarger.html   (466 words)

  
 Carson-Newman vs Lenoir-Rhyne College (Apr 27, 2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
5 1 2 0 0 2 10 0 3 Linebarger dh............
Linebarger reached on a fielding error by 3b; Southerland advanced to second.
Linebarger doubled down the lf line, 2 RBI; Mason scored, unearned; Shaffer scored, unearned.
www.lrc.edu /athletics/baseball/2002/2002bbstats/game52.htm   (2278 words)

  
 Caller.com: Local News
The donation was by Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, the defendant in a lawsuit brought by its competitor, Municipal Services Bureau.
Linebarger's point is there was never any kind of forbidden agreement, and no reason for Ortiz to believe any wrongdoing took place, Linebarger spokeswoman Elyse Yates said.
Nueces County officials were drawn in because of an August decision to award a contract to Linebarger to collect court fines and fees.
www.caller.com /ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_3029549,00.html   (956 words)

  
 Cordwainer_Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
'''Cordwainer Smith''' – pronounced ''CORdiner Smith'' – was the pen-name used by the American author Dr. '''Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger''' (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works.
The Orient was also the origin for another pen-name that he used for some stories, "Felix C. Forrest" – the ideograms in Chinese for "Linebarger" translate roughly as "Forest of Incandescent Bliss".
In 1947, he moved to Johns Hopkins University, serving as Professor of Asiatic Studies.
goc.subdomain.de /Cordwainer_Smith   (549 words)

  
 Comments on 14993 | MetaFilter
Paul Linebarger became a spy for the U.S. Intelligence community because he was an expert in propaganda, psychological warfare, and the culture of China.
Paul et Virginie was the Chateaubriand story, which I meant to include above.
Linebarger was also devoutly religious -- and some fans see this as the core element of his work.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/14993   (861 words)

  
 Linebarger Paul M A Djang Chu And Ardath W Burks - new and used books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Linebarger Paul M A Djang Chu And Ardath W Burks - new and used books
LINEBARGER, Paul M. A., Djang Chu, and Ardath W. Burks
LINEBARGER, Paul M. A., Djang Chu, and Ardath W. Burks - FAR EASTERN GOVERNMENTS AND POLITICS: CHINA AND JAPAN
www.isbn.pl /A-LINEBARGER-Paul-M-A-Djang-Chu-and-Ardath-W-Burks   (288 words)

  
 No, No, Not Rogov! by Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym of Paul Linebarger, a mysterious and colorful figure who was an expert on psychological warfare (he wrote a standard text) and spent his career in the Intelligence community.
There was apparently some real competitiveness in Linebarger, for he wrote an entire book manuscript (never published) in the late 1940s on the science of mental health.
In typical hard sf fashion, both Linebarger and Hubbard were trying to raise psychology to the status of a "real" science.
ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Rogov.html   (336 words)

  
 Chapter 12: The Problem of Ideology
Linebarger maintained that the clash of ideologies in the past provided "a clue to the future," as the two world wars reflected "an increasing emphasis on ideology or political faith as driving forces behind warfare rather than the considerations of coldly calculated diplomacy."
The individual infected with the forbidden ideology either converts or dies, freedom of expression is curbed to throttle its proponents and halt the spread of infection.
Linebarger notes that the two approaches to ideological warfare were successfully applied by the Nazis.
www.statecraft.org /chapter12.html   (10033 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith F.A.Q. - Alan C. Elms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A: No. Though he visited Japan on a number of occasions, the first time when he was about 6 years old, his longest stay was less than a month.
Q: Was Paul Linebarger the patient called "Kirk Allen" in the famous case history "The Jet-Propelled Couch," in Robert Lindner's book The Fifty-Minute Hour?
I'll include still more evidence of both kinds, as well as some reasons why I'm not absolutely certain, in my biography of Paul Linebarger, which I hope will be finished by the end of 2005 or soon thereafter.
www.ulmus.net /ace/csmith/csfaq.cfm   (475 words)

  
 Cordwainer Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Paul tehdy svolal veškeré služebnictvo, a řekl jim: Ztrácejí se tu věci.
Paul Linebarger sloužil v Číně a Indii, po skončení války se s hodností majora vrátil do Států, v roce 1947 se jim narodila druhá dcera.
Paul Linebarger ale pečlivě skrýval svoji totožnost a když zemřel, jen pár lidí vědělo, kdo se pod pseudonymem Cordwainer Smith skrývá.
www.scifiworld.cz /article.php?printable=1&ArticleID=422   (784 words)

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