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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. Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare. Although his career as a writer was shortened by his death at the age of ...
"Scanners Live in Vain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith (pen name of American writer Paul Linebarger). It was the first story in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind future history to be published and the first story to appear under the Smith pseudonym.
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966), known as Cordwainer Smith, American author Walter F. Lineberger (1883–1943), American politician William Carl Lineberger (born 1939), American chemist
Abstract: Seven letters, February 1863-October 1864, from Thomas James Linebarger (1838-1928), while he was a Confederate captain with the 28th North Carolina Regiment in Virginia, to his sister, Anne Linebarger, discussing casualties and fighting, especially in the Wilderness Campaign; T.J. Linebarger's terse diary, 1861-1869, listing events ...
"When the People Fell" is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith, set in his "Instrumentality" universe.It was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in April 1959, and is collected in The Rediscovery of Man, and in the collection of which it is the title story.
Human rights advocates claim government authorities have used the project as a vehicle for pushing indigenous peoples out of their ancestral forests. They are not alone. In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank — the planet’s oldest and most powerful ...
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of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 (now superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short stories).
Drawing on Linebarger's own expertise in the field of psychological warfare, the book is a study of the personality of a U.S. operative (Major Michael Dugan) who has little in common with James Bond except his extreme resourcefulness under cover and in danger. A man of many identities who sees himself to some extent as a blank sheet, he goes ...