1. So I have an idea for great book that someone (not me) should write: Cordwainer Smith's Science Fiction & the Bad Conscience of American Empire.
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2. Cordwainer Smith was the pen name of Paul Linebarger (1913-1966), an American who grew up in China, where his father was an advisor to the great nationalist hero Sun Yat-sen,
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3. Because much of his upbringing was in China (Sun Yat-sen was his godfather) Linebarger was fluent in Chinese (claimed he dreamt in it) & developed a larger expertise in Asian culture, which he used in the services of the CIA.
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He wrote about Linebarger?
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