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My most recent journal article is "Behind the Jet-Propelled Couch: Cordwainer Smith and Kirk Allen," in the New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2002 issue. The article begins: "In 1978 I began to pursue the question of whether Paul Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith, had been the patient in 'The Jet-Propelled Couch,' a psychoanalytic case history written by Robert Lindner. . . . Lindner's book, The Fifty-Minute Hour, has sold several million copies since its first publication in 1955 and has remained almost constantly in print. The book's most fascinating case, 'The Jet-Propelled Couch,' has been reprinted in magazines and anthologies, has been dramatized on live TV, has repeatedly been optioned for a feature-length film, and even provided the basis for a Stephen Sondheim musical that (like all those potential film versions) was never completed." (Single copies of The New York Review of Science Fiction are available for $3.50 each from Dragon Press, P. O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570.)
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