The Best of Cordwainer Smith

Synopsis: STATED FIRST PRINTING. Sept. 1975 Ballantine Books MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, C ordwainer Smith (Norstrilia). Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visi onaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. This brilliant collection, often cited as t he first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and ou r treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately wha t it means to be human. - Amazon About the Author: Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966) was the pseudonym of Dr. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. He grew up in China, Japan, France, and Germany and had learned six languages by his late teens. He worked with his father as an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and served as an intelligence officer in China and Korea. He wrote an authoritative book on psychological warfare and became a member of the Foreign Policy Association and a professor of Asiatic Politics at John Hopkins University.

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ISBN: 0345245814

ISBN-13: 9780345245816

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Year: 1975

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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