Cordwainer Smith

• Biography

  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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• Praise for Books

  “[A] magnificently original and imaginative writer.” —Kingsley Amis, author of Lucky Jim, praise for the author

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  • The Best of Cordwainer Smith

  • Stories by Cordwainer Smith

    Edited, with introduction and notes by J. J. Pierce

    Read by Sean Runnette

  • Release Date: 11/29/16

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  With an introduction by J. J. Pierce, this volume features the twelve most important stories by Cordwainer Smith, a unique writer who has fused wonder and poetry into imaginative tales that transcend both science and fiction.

  Scanners Live in Vain
  Adam Stone has found a way for men to cross deep space alive—a discovery that might kill him.

  The Lady Who Sailed the Soul
  Helen America voyages to the stars—and into a timeless legend of romance.

  Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
  They thought it was a road to a dream that lasts forever—but dreams are made to be broken.

  The Ballad of Lost C’Mell
  Never has there been a girl quite like C’mell. She’s not even human—but she’s all woman.

  And eight more stunning stories by a man who dreamed the future

  • The Best of Cordwainer Smith

  • Stories by Cordwainer Smith

    Edited, with introduction and notes by J. J. Pierce

    Read by Sean Runnette

  • Release Date: 11/29/16

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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