Cordwainer Smith was the pen-name used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" , "Anthony Bearden" and "Felix C. Forrest" . He died of a heart attack in 1966 at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 53.
“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire…”
Cordwainer Smith book The Rediscovery of Man
Source: The Rediscovery of Man
