A World War Ii Era Spy Novel By Sf Writer Cordwainer Smith And Reflections On Sustainability By Kelly Hart.
   Atomsk is a clever and engaging spy novel.... It was written by Paul M. A.  Linebarger under the pen name of Carmichael Smith, shortly before he began writing as Cordwainer Smith. This book draws on the principles of      Psychological Warfare, a field which he helped to found.
   Atomsk is out of print. Copies of it tend to fetch high prices in the used book market. But it's now available as an immediately downloadable ebook!
   It's always been one of my favorites of my father's writings, so for those of you who are readers more than collectors, I spent some time scanning in my copy and making an ebook. You can read it onscreen or print it out.
   Atomsk begins not long after World War II, with the American military in occupied Japan concerned about a very secret Russian city in Siberia. General Coppersmith asks Major Michael Dugan, "the greatest spy in the world," to help.
   "Atomsk is what we now call a techno-thriller. It was written twenty-five years too early. Had it been written later, it would have been acclaimed as well, the sort of thing that Tom Clancy made millions out of! The seeds fell on ground that hadn't been ploughed and fertilized yet, as it were." (Tony Lewis)