Editing Cordwainer Smith (section)

==Case history debate==
Linebarger is long rumored to have been "[[Kirk Allen]]", the fantasy-haunted subject of [[Kirk Allen|"The Jet-Propelled Couch,"]] a chapter in [[psychologist]] [[Robert M. Lindner]]'s best-selling 1954 collection ''The Fifty-Minute Hour.''<ref name=JH/><ref>Lindner, Robert. ''The Fifty-Minute Hour.'' New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1954.</ref> According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elms |first1=Alan C. |title=Behind the Jet-Propelled Couch: Cordwainer Smith and Kirk Allen |url=https://elms.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2014/07/20021-Behind-the-Jet1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071906/https://elms.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2014/07/20021-Behind-the-Jet1.pdf |archive-date=2018-06-14 |url-status=live |publisher=UC Davis |access-date=29 May 2020 |date=May 2002}}</ref> this speculation first reached print in [[Brian Aldiss]]'s 1973 history of science fiction, ''Billion Year Spree''; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have received the information from science fiction fan and scholar [[Leon Stover]].<ref>Aldiss, Brian W. ''Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction.'' New York: Doubleday, 1973.</ref> More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein<ref>Weinstein, Lee. "In Search of Kirk Allen," ''New York Review of Science Fiction'', April 2001.</ref> have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being Allen, but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of Kirk Allen.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Scholarly Corner, by Alan C. Elms|url=http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/scholarly.htm|access-date=2023-02-03|website=cordwainer-smith.com}}</ref>