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A cordwainer (/ ˈ k ɔːr d ˌ w eɪ n ər /) is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade can be contrasted with the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers to repairing shoes. [ 1 ]
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Linebarger's identity as "Cordwainer Smith" was secret until his death. [14] ("Cordwainer" is an archaic word for "a worker in cordwain or cordovan leather; a shoemaker", [15] and a "smith" is "one who works in iron or other metals; esp. a blacksmith or farrier": [15] two kinds of skilled workers with
"Scanners Live in Vain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith (pen name of American writer Paul Linebarger [1913–1966]). It was the first story in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind future history to be published and the first story to appear under the Smith pseudonym.
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith (ISBN 0-915368-56-0) is a 1993 book containing the complete collected short fiction of American science fiction author Cordwainer Smith.
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Cordwainers were workers in fine leather; the Company gets its name from "cordwain" (), the white leather produced from goatskin in Cordova, Spain.
A boot and shoe clicker is the person who cuts the uppers for boots or shoes from a skin of leather or piece of man-made material (usually from a bulk roll). This includes all components of the upper, including linings, facings, stiffeners, reinforcements for eyelets and zip-protectors.
In his 1978 book Strange Wine, Ellison explains the origins of the Bird and goes on to state that Philip José Farmer wrote Cordwainer into the Wold Newton family that the latter writer had developed. The thought of such a whimsical object lesson being related to such lights as Doc Savage, The Shadow, Tarzan, and all the other pulp heroes ...