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Right after World War II:
“I want you to spoil the secret of Atomsk.”
“Atomsk?”
Coppersmith spelled it out, adding, “It’s the Russian atomic center. We want them to know that we know all about it. We want them to guess as to how we know about it. We want to get the information for our own use, but we don’t just want to know about it as a bombing target. We want the Russians to suspect us so much that they will not fool themselves. For that, we need a man as a weapon.”
“To go in, to get out, and, after he was out, to leave traces?”
“Right. If the Russians think we know about their precious secret, they will be less disposed to take a chance. If we ourselves do know what the secret is, we will be less inclined to wage war against an unknown and therefore exaggerated danger. This is the meanest kind of fight there is, Major. It’s a fight to keep the peace.”
* * *
Major Michael Dugan had spent the war successfully pretending to be a Japanese officer. Now he infiltrates the secret Soviet city of Atomsk. The flair he does it with, the cleverness with which he overcomes countless obstacles,and the richness of the writing, make Atomsk a unique story and a page-turner. A dash of romance helps.
This Cold War-era spy novel was written by the man who went on to science fiction fame as Cordwainer Smith. His name in daily life was Paul M. A. Linebarger, and using his own name he wrote the classic book Psychological Warfare, translated into 14 languages.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"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." -- Anthony Lewis, author of Concordance to Cordwainer Smith
"Perhaps I like Atomsk so much because of the cultural subtleties. It's one of my favorites of my father's books, even more than most of his science fiction. It's a real page-turner, too, as most of his work is." -- Rosana (Linebarger) Hart
"You should have warned me. I have to go to work but I can't stop reading." -- a friend of Rosana's
- Sales Rank: #185590 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-27
- Released on: 2012-01-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A lost international thriller pioneer
By Richard Stooker
When I was a kid reading science fiction in the 1960s, the stories from one name in particular blew me away -- Cordwainer Smith. He had a knack for making the far future seem real and yet -- in contrast to many current culture-bound SF writers -- vastly different from the present.
Within a few years it became general knowledge "Cordwainer Smith" was the pen name for Paul Linebarger, who in real life was an expert on the Far East (his father was an advisor to Sun Yat-Sen) and on psychological warfare, which he wrote the book on.
Now, it turns out he wrote an international espionage thriller, predating fellow World War 2 veteran Ian Fleming's books on James Bond and Cold War-era spook David Cornwall's (John Le Carre) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
Unfortunately, it never reached its audience, although news of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb test should have helped push it to the bestseller list.
Before the Korean War, before the executions of the Rosenbergs for betraying America's atomic secrets and before the public knew the USSR had secret cities devoted to their own version of the Manhattan Project, Linebarger wrote of a daring mission by an American spy.
He penetrates the secret city, grabs some documents, carries out some sabotage and manages to return.
His escape would make a thrilling movie. One of those Raiders of the Lost Ark type scenes you don't really believe anyone could survive in real life but which are exciting anyway.
The rest of the book is more subtle, and perhaps that's why it's been out of print.
They're more . . . realistic. To enter the Soviet Union in those days he had to be a master of disguises and languages, working his way from the border between North and South Korea, through China and into the USSR proper.
Today's writers would get him in and out a lot faster. Linebarger knew how such missions worked in real life. In that sense, this book reads much like Frederick Forsyth. You get the sense the author knows what he's talking about, not just pulling it out of his behind or using common misunderstandings, as some authors do.
In part this is a character study of the spy Dugan. Although his accomplishments are impressive, and in their own way just as extraordinary as 007, he's totally the opposite. He's an outsider. (Interestingly, it took me a while to realize part of his problem is his racial background. He's half Aleut, which means he's half non-white. The significance of that would have been more obvious when the book was published than it is now.)
He effaces his true self to the point he may not know who is really is any longer.
In the end he marries and "settles down," but you still have to wonder if his wife will ever know her husband.
Unlike modern international thriller, this is a fairly short, straightforward book.
Highly recommended.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Enjoyable spy novel by Carmichael or Cordwainer Smith
By Rosana Hart
Of all my father's writings, this is one of my very favorites, even more than the science fiction he is much more famous for, written after this novel, with the pen name of Cordwainer Smith.
Amazon carries his two science fiction titles: The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith and his only science fiction novel, Norstrilia
Perhaps I like Atomsk so much because of the cultural subtleties that come through, as in the excerpt below (there is more on my website about Cordwainer Smith.)
Everything below here is from Atomsk:
Who was she to say that this was not the real, the true Dugan? People were not their dead selves but their live selves. Yet in the case of a man like Dugan, there must be alternative selves, other personalities patterned to the occasion and the culture. Dugan-the-Japanese must have been just as believable as Dugan-the-American; Japanese must have liked him because he was Japanese; otherwise he would have been found out and killed. How could she like a man who existed only by virtue of his own command, who played perpetually on a stage of make-believe?
What was he, anyway? Dugan was no name for a man with black hair, black eyes, olive skin -- or was it? Was he a Turk or a Greek, an Italian or an Egyptian, or (wildest chance of all, this) simply an American?... Swanson had just said, "I knew the pilot. They killed him. They had a right to, but I hate them for it just the same." Sarah supposed he was talking about the photo plane. Dugan responded by closing his face -- literally shutting out all expression for an instant -- so that he looked like a dead man. Or like a Japanese!
Sarah saw, with a flash of intuition, that she had caught him betraying himself -- for the first distinguishable second in days of their being together. For once, Dugan had gone back to his wartime role and had responded with the manner of a Japanese, the dead formal silence with which Japanese men bore news of disaster. He must have had many friends among the Japanese during his years of wartime spying; and of them, many must have died, so that the expression of quick military sorrow could have become habitual.
But before she could catch her breath or say anything, Dugan let his face go doleful in the American manner.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Amazon backs a winner . . .
By Mrs. Buck Nichols
This book is a winner in so many ways. First, it comes out of a time when America was feeling like a winner, and the American spy hero Dugan, besides being a romantic in the old sense, wins every time. Not like Bond, who wins with gadgets and girls, this man comes out on top with only his talents, experience, and considerable intellect. Dugan is that rarest of characters--the completely captivating hero, the one you can't get enough of--like Tarzan, like John Carter. But even without Dugan, much is unique. There is also Smith's sensitivity to language. The mood is the authentic beginning-of-the-nuclear race, and the ethic is the American ethic of that time. "Smith's" intimate knowledge of his contemporary Far East background is also a big plus, and adds a grounding of realism that many masters of the genre have trouble achieving. His amazing gamut of skills, in ATOMSK, is a foretaste of masterful achievements to come. Cordwainer Smith has never been recognized fully in the list of SF greats, but to me, he is right at the top. A fantastically good read. No fan of early SF should miss it.
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