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"Cordwainer Smith" is the pen name that Paul Linebarger used to write some of the most remarkable pages of science fiction 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.He was born in the United States, where he would also die, but he lived in four continents. A polyglot and cosmopolite, his training left a deep footprint on Chinese culture. From a young age he frequented the political world of the Far East. Sun Yat-sen, the first Chinese president, was his godfather and he represented Chiang Kai-shek in Washington while still in adolescence. He discussed strategy with Mao Zedong and became an advisor to Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, for whom he also wrote speeches.During World War II, he helped organize one of the United States' first intelligence services. Within this framework, he wrote a manual on psychological warfare 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 assumi

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Author

Pablo Capanna Lord of the Afternoon

Publisher

Guid Publicaciones

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9789995732226

Category

work of fiction