The Boy Who Bought Old Earth
Book Details
| Title: | The Boy Who Bought Old Earth | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1964 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Galaxy Magazine, April 1964 | ||||||||||
| Tags: | science fiction, short story | ||||||||||
| Description: | Science fiction novella. Rod McBan was a rich kid from the wealthiest planet in the galaxy, and he bought Earth without even realizing what he had done. "He came to Earth, got what he wanted and got away alive, in a series of very remarkable adventures. That's the story." But of course there's much more to the story than that! [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 884 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 74  |
Author Bio for Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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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