Category: Books

Reviews of books Adam has read.

A few weeks ago I fin­ished read­ing The Redis­cov­ery of Man, a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries by Cord­wain­er Smith. His real name is Paul Myron Antho­ny Linebarg­er and he was the god­son of Sun Yat Sen, a pro­fes­sor of Asi­at­ic Stud­ies at Johns Hop­kins, spoke sev­er­al lan­guages, wrote the sem­i­nal work Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare and was a spy [more here].
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