When Rosana asked me to start a «Scholarly Corner» for her Cordwainer-Smith.com website, she didn’t specify what kinds of scholars I should discuss. Cordwainer Smith has been blessed with resourceful and energetic fannish scholars, ever since one of them figured out in 1965 that he was really a political scientist named Paul M. A. Linebarger. If you’re familiar with the website, you may have seen two of the best works of fannish Smith scholarship, Tony Lewis’s Concordance and Mike Bennett’s bibliography…
