cordwainer

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Lavie: No science fiction writer was ever as weird, as brilliant and as unjustly neglected, perhaps, as Cordwainer Smith.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

The two men get carried away in one of their semi-regular conversations about obscure science fiction — Cordwainer Smith, anyone? — until a publicist politely breaks up the geek-out session.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

Linebarger, who wrote under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2018

Some of the latter retain their significant names even yet—Hosier Lane, Cordwainer Street, Bread Street, Soper’s Lane, the Poultry, Silver Street, Ironmonger’s Lane, and Paternoster Row, in which last lived the text-writers and rosary-makers.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

Gracchus has become Baboeuf and edits Newspapers; Mutius Scaevola, Cordwainer of that ilk, presides in the Section Mutius-Scaevola: and in brief, there is a world wholly jumbling itself, to try what will swim!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas