Letters from Paul: Some Letters from Paul Myron Anthony
Linebarger, Who Wrote Science Fiction as Cordwainer Smith
Edited by Rosana Hart
Would you like to glimpse behind the scenes and
read family letters from Paul M.A. Linebarger (who was
Cordwainer Smith), many written in his own hand?
I've compiled a 54-page book which you can buy only from us.
We are almost out of stock and will not
reprint more anytime soon. It's comb-bound, 8.5" by 11" and
contains a dozen letters written between 1933 and 1962. Two of
the longest letters, written to me when I was a baby, spell out
his personal philosophy—written, I'm sure, in case he never
returned from the war. (The legibility of a few of the letters
is a little bad, specially when he wrote in red ink or didn't
change his typewriter ribbon. But it's all readable.)
I've put one of the letters on
another page in its entirety.
It also includes a list of my father's travels from birth to
1957.
Contents of Letters from Paul
- Introduction, by Rosana Hart
- Letter to his parents from London, March 1933...page
6
- Poem, July 1943...page 13
- First letter from India, September 1943...page 14
- A Letter on Right and Wrong, September 1943...page
16
- A Letter on Permissible Wrong, October 1943...page
23
- The Message from a Living God, Chungking, March 28,
1944...page 31
- Two letters to his mother, 1944...page 39
- Letter from Tokyo,1951...page 42
- Letter from Singapore, 1954...page 44
- Letter from Canberra, 1957...page 45
- Letter about Cuban Missile Crisis, 25 October
1962...page 47
- Emergency Family Passport, 1922, Shanghai...page
49
- Map and edited list of travels of Paul Linebarger
through 1957... page 51
(Letters not specified are to me.—Rosana)
Order Letters from Paul for $19.95 plus shipping, via
Paypal:
When our current stock runs out, this probably won't be
available.
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