For decades, there has been discussion about whether Paul M. A. Linebarger, also known as Cordwainer Smith and some other names, was also Kirk Allen. No, he didn’t use that name. But Robert Lindner wrote a book titled The Fifty-Minute Hour, and ever since then, people have been speculating as to whether the Kirk Allen [...]
by Steve Davidson – The Crotchety Old Fan A few short years ago, the Cordwainer Smith Foundation introduced the C.S. Rediscovery Award. It’s purpose is to honor a “science fiction or fantasy writer whose work displays unusual originality, embodies the spirit of Cordwainer Smith’s fiction, and deserves renewed attention or ‘Rediscovery.’” Since 2001, the award [...]
Recently I got an email from a sharp-eyed employee of the Library of Congress who is also a Cordwainer Smith fan. He had come across this photo and thought it might be mislabeled. It said that it was of W.W. Linebarger; click on the image to see the LOC page about it. W.W. Linebarger was [...]
Guest Blogger Steve Davidson blogs as The Crotchety Old Fan, maintains the Classic Science Fiction Channel website and is currently trying his hand at a science fiction novel, following a 20 year career in non-fiction. His latest non-fiction book, A Parent’s Guide to Paintball, will be released this coming April. I’ve been a Cordwainer Smith fan since I first [...]
I’m Cordwainer Smith’s daughter, but I’m not really a serious science fiction fan. So while I can do this blog okay, I’m thinking that there may be some of you readers who actually have more interesting things to say about Cordwainer Smith stories, his vision, his place in science fiction, or whatever. Commentary on other [...]
Alan Elms has been working on a biography of CS / PMAL for years, and I often turn to him for answers to questions that readers send me… Here are some of these, reprinted from old ezines of mine. I think the questions are obvious from the answers: Paul Linebarger wrote a book manuscript called [...]
Here are George C. Willick’s comments about visiting the grave of Paul M. A. Linebarger at Arlington National Cemetery, in 2002. These appeared originally in the ezine I ran for a while back then, and were on a long ezine page of the old website. Went ‘back east’ a couple weeks ago, primarily on a [...]