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Smith's first professionally published sf story, "Scanners Live in Vain", originally appeared in Fantasy Book in 1950 Smith's novelette The Ballad of Lost C'Mell was the cover story on the October 1962 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
Artwork by Virgil Finlay.
Smith's novelette "Drunkboat" took the cover of the October 1963 issue of Amazing Stories.
Art by Lloyd Birmingham.
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger （July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966）, better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works.
Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare.
Although his career as a writer was shortened by his death at the age of 53, he is considered one of the more talented and influential science fiction authors.
Linebarger's father, Paul Myron Wentworth Linebarger, was a lawyer and political activist, an advisor to Sun Yat-sen, and had close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
In order for Linebarger to be eligible to become president of the United States, his father sent Linebarger's mother to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to give birth to him there.
Linebarger's godfather was Sun Yat-sen, who was considered the father of Chinese nationalism.
His young life was unsettled as his father moved the family to a succession of places in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
He was sometimes sent to boarding schools for safety.
In all, Linebarger attended more than 30 schools.
In 1919, while at a boarding school in Hawaii, he was blinded in his right eye and it was replaced by a glass eye.
The vision in his remaining eye was impaired b...