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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A Fascinating IndividualBy Brett HPaul Linebarger aka Cordwainer Smith was one of those rare individuals who excel in more than one area of their professional life. He was from quite an unusual background as he father had strong links to the . He had the Chinese premier Sun Yat-Sen as a godfather and at a fairly early age advised his successor Chiang Kai-Shek. He maintained his links with and subsequently had some involvement with Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong). During the Second World War he worked with the US intelligence services and was later a presidential adviser.Cordwainer Smith was one of several pseudonyms which Linebarger adopted and he used this name for his sci fi publications during the latter part of his life. His output under this name ran to 33 stories and one novel. These are far from the more usual sci fi stories with quite unusual angles and approaches. The stories are unified in that they cover seven distinct ages or phases and there is a lot of cross referencing between these stories and, indeed, stories which were never published.This book covers the life of this exceptional individual, from his childhood up to his premature death, aged 53, in 1966 and looks at his professional and personal life. However, the meat of this biography is in taking a close look at the stories he wrote - in fact the title `Lord of the Afternoon' refers to the last of the seven time periods he created. Cordwainer used what was happening in the world around him as a basis for much of what is in his fiction and there are elements of the Cold War, which was just beginning prior to his death, and the Civil Rights movement. The latter is the inspiration for the `Underpeople'.This is not a particularly easy read, and is, in parts, more akin to a text book than a biography. However, there is a lot of interest here and the parallels between Lindbarger's fictional characters such as JFK and even Marilyn Monroe are quite fascinating. Not for everyone, but a worthwhile read nonetheless.

"Cordwainer Smith" is the pen name that Paul Linebarger used to write some of the most remarkable pages of of all time.The creator of these curious stories, which took place in a remote future but overflowed with allusions to the present day, was a complex, contradictory and decidedly undefinable character.During World War II, he helped organize one of the United States' first intelligence services. Within this framework, he wrote a manual on because he believed persuading the enemy was more virtuous than destroying it.He toyed with characters like Rambo and James Bond long before others ever did, but never fully adopted them. Before assuming the identity of "Cordwainer Smith," he suffered a deep crisis that gave him a glimpse into madness, but he emerged unscathed just as he was beginning to drag his therapist into it as well.He remained connected to the world of espionage by questioning and raising suspicions of stories of where it might be possible to find the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, and likewise with regard to the civil rights movement, and even Marilyn Monroe.In these cases, the author's personality is equally as, if not more, fascinating than his work, which allows this book to not be bogged down in literary analysis and compels immersion into the complexities of human conscience.

About the AuthorBorn in Florence (Italy) in 1939, he has resided in Argentina since the age of ten. His career has included a variety of posts as a university professor and journalist and he is currently a professor of philosphy. His works include El sentido de la ciencia ficcioacute;n, the first essay on this topic written in Spanish, which has been republished a variety of times (1967-2007). He is also the author of La Tecnarquiacute;a (1973); Excursos. Grandes Relatos de ficcioacute;n (1999); Andrei Tarkovski: el icono y la pantalla (2003); Idios Kosmos. Claves para P.K.Dick, 2005); Ballard, el tiempo desolado (2009); Conspiraciones (2009), Inspiraciones (2010) y Maquinaciones (2011).

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