See: http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/12/cordwainer-smith-the-ballad-of-lost-linebarger-part-1/ and http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/12/cordwainer-smith-the-ballad-of-lost-linebarger-part-2/ And while I’m here, here is a link to another good CS article: http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2010/09/21/tripping-cyborgs-and-organ-farms-the-fictions-of-cordwainer-smith/
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a letter from my father in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, dated 3 August 1964. He, my stepmother, my sister, my cousin, and another friend our age had made several trips to Saltillo’s Universidad Interamericana, where they studied Spanish. I’m not sure who had gone on this particular trip. I had just graduated from Stanford and [...]
On July 11 of this year, I was deep into the total makeover of cordwainer-smith.com and it wasn’t till well into the morning that I did a bit of math and realized that since my father was born in 1913, that was 95 years ago. Since he died so young, in his 50s,
I’ve alread blogged about some comments about my father from his close friend, Australian Arthur Burns, in an interview with John Foyster. Here are some bits from an article Arthur wrote after my father died–they sure brought back memories for me, especially the physical description. Thanks to John Foyster for the right to use this [...]
Arthur Burns was an Australian friend of my father’s. I remember him and his wife Netta, and their children, particularly from 1961, when I was a college student in France and I stayed with them in London around Christmas; they were living there for the year. One evening as we discussed plans for the next [...]
My husband Kelly and I live much of the time nowadays in Mexico. In 2002, we were living year-round in Colorado when I got a bee in my bonnet that I had to get back to Mexico to celebrate 50 years since my first trip there with my father. That trip led to several others, [...]
Alan Elms found an unpublished article of my father’s titled “Any Fool Can Earn Money” in the University of Kansas archives. It appears to have been written in the early 1950s. Here’s part of it: Intelligence will make money. But can intelligence spend it? I doubt it. It takes taste to spend money effectively.
Chu Djang — we wrote his name Djang Chu in those days — was one of my father’s very closest friends, and I have many memories of visiting “Djang,” as we always called him, his wife Jane, and his sons William and Arthur in New York, as we were growing up. (Once, when I was [...]