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The Ballad of Lost C'mell

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Title:The Ballad of Lost C'mell
Author:
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony  Writing under the pseudonym: Smith, Cordwainer   
(3 of 30 for author by title)
The Boy Who Bought Old Earth
Angerhelm
Published:   1962
Publisher:Galaxy Magazine, October 1962
Tags:science fiction, short story
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One of Smith's most famous science fiction short stories, often reprinted. "She was a girly-girl", the story starts, but we quickly learn that "She was not even of human extraction. She was cat-derived, though human in outward shape, which explains the C in front of her name." [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony

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Cordwainer Smith was the pen-name used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913—August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller Atomsk), "Anthony Bearden" (for his poetry) and "Felix C. Forrest" (for the novels Ria and Carola). He died of a heart attack in 1966 at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 53.

A notable characteristic of Linebarger's science fiction is that most of his stories are set in the same fictional universe, with a unified chronology. Some anthologies of Linebarger's fiction include a chart, with each of his stories inserted into the appropriate slot in the timeline. All his writings suggest a rich universe developing over a long period of time, but leave much to be guessed at by the reader. ...

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