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34 reviews
Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth

St Martins Pr, 1985

Cynicism at its thought provoking best!
Brilliantly written in the 1950s, "The Space Merchants" is a deeply cynical and darkly prescient dystopian novel in which advertising, conspicuous consumption and capitalism have run rampant in a world beset with overpopulation and environmental degradation. Mitch Courtenay is an executive copywriter with Fowler Schocken, an advertising agency that has been given the task of selling the notion ...

Best of C. M. Kornbluth

4 reviews
C.M. Kornbluth

Ballantine Books, 1976

One of the best SF short story collections ever written...
There is not a dud in this book...each story is a stone-cold SF masterpiece by a true genius who was cut down in his prime at age 35. If you haven't read Kornbluth, you are missing out on some of the finest SF stories anywhere. Includes the widely acknowledged SF masterwork, "The Marching Morons" that seems utterly prophetic for the 90s. Also has The Little Black Bag, many others. Kornbluth's ...

NO LIMITS

1 review
Joseph W. (editor) (C. M. Kornbluth; Leigh Brackett; Avram Davidson; Walter M. Miller Jr.; Lester del Rey; Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Henry Slesar; Theodore Sturgeon) Ferman

BALLENTINE, 1964

Gems From The Magazine of Fatasy & Science Fiction!
Table of Contents: The Education of Tigress Macardle C. M. Kornbluth All the Colors of the Rainbow Leigh Brackett Now Let Us Sleep Avram Davidson Vengeance for Nikolai Walter M. Miller, Jr. Seat of Judgment Lester Del Rey Buy Jupiter! Isaac Asimov And Then She Found Him . . . Algis Budrys Before ...

Not This August

4 reviews
C. M. Kornbluth

Tor Books, 1986

Classic Cold War Cautionary Tale
The book opens with the capitulation of the US to an alliance of communist Chinese and Soviet military might. The plot outlines how the US was the last bastion of freedom in a world steadily gobbled up by the 'red menace'. I first read this in the early sixties before Vietnam got us all distracted. C.M. Kornbluth wrote this at a time when international communism seemed unstoppable and it was just ...

His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth

10 reviews
C. M. Kornbluth, Timothy Szczesuil

Nesfa Press, 1997

One of the best books I've ever bought
OK, I've read most of these stories already. And I already knew that Kornbluth was a great writer. But reading this volume all the way through -- and in pretty short order because I couldn't stop -- just reminded me how great a writer he was. If you have only dim memories of these stories, I guarantee that upon rereading them you'll be amazed at how much *better* they are than you remember. ...

Gladiator-at-Law

1 review
Frederik & C.M. Kornbluth Pohl

New York: Ballantine Books, 1972, 1972

A frightening prophecy.
It is astonishing to me, and more than a little frightening in a paranoid kind of way, that this novel is out of print. It is first, an excellent read. Second, I have never read a book that more accurately and scathingly satirized the state of today's world. From a housing development fourty years later called "Belly Rave," (Belle Reve) to an spot-on prediction of reality television, this novel ...

2000x: The Marching Morons (Dramatized)

1 review
C. M. Kornbluth

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Possibly the most important title in SF before 1969
Kornbluth is, today, largely unknown. However, visit the SF section of your nearest secondhand bookshop, and you'll find either a cut-down version or the full version of this story in a compilation. Like Philip Dick and Theodore Sturgeon, Kornbluth's shorter works are the ones that have had the most to say, and the most influence on later SF. These writers are distinguishable from writers of ...

Gladiator-at-law (Ballantine SF, 01659)

9 reviews
C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl

Ballantine Books, 1969

Welcome to America's Coloseum!
Unfortunately for sci-fi fans, Cyril M. Kornbluth had a very short life (1923-1958). Nevertheless he was able to deliver several very good novels. "Gladiator-at-law" (1954) in collaboration with his friend Frederik Pohl is one of them. First of all what an enticing title! You simply can't let it pass by unnoticed! The story describes a dystopia with many traits in common with their previous ...

50 Short Science Fiction Tales

16 reviews
Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, ...

Collier Books / Macmillan, 1963

titles
Includes 2 poems at ends so 52 titles. Ballade of an Artificial Satellite - Poul Anderson The Fun They Had - Isaac Asimov Men are Different - Alan Bloch The Ambassadors - Anthony Boucher The Weapon - Frederic Brown Random Sample - T.P. Caravan Oscar - Cleve Cartmill The Mist - Peter Cartur Teething Ring - James Causey The Haunted Space Suit - Arthur C Clarke Stair Trick - Mildred ...

Search the Sky

3 reviews
Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth

Ballantine Books, 1969

Possibly the best science-fiction book ever
I read this book years ago and I still remember it clearly. Strange things are happening on the distant planets where, in the far future, mankind has scattered. Every planet has something oddly wrong with it. On one, people simply have no drive left; on another, the old rule the young; on yet a third, women rule men (yes, it's faintly sexist, but don't let that ruin a great book). A group ...

Wolfbane

7 reviews
C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl

Ballantine Books, 1969

Very strong, classic Golden Age start, weaker finish
On settling down with this novel (on recommendation, I think I recall, of Instapundit) I enjoyed the flash of recognition of the classic SF style. Written well, with interesting, unexplained phenomenology (mysterious pyramids, Earth moving from the Solar System), followed by a "rational" "scientific" explanation within a sharply constrained set of premises. Unfortunately, perhaps because the ...

Not This August

2 reviews
C. M. Kornbluth

Doubleday and Company, 1955

Revolt, American Style
When I first read this shortly after its publication in 1955, it struck me as a very powerful statement of not only a very plausible (if pessimistic) view of the future, but encapsulated the essence of the American spirit. The book envisions a US shortly after it has been conquered by the Russians and Chinese. At the beginning, the occupation does not seem to be all that onerous to the major ...

Robots - Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #9

1 review
Harry Slesar, Robert Sheckley, ...

Signet, 1989

Robots: Machines in Man's Image By: Isaac Asimov
This book talked about everything I needed to know about robots. It covered everything from the creation of robotics till' the engineers who have created them. It gave me a complete and total history all the way back to the early 1700's. This book was entertaining, yet educational at the same time. Once I read the first chapter I didn't want to put it down. I really didn't know that robots had ...

A Mile Beyond the Moon

1 review
C. M. Kornbluth

MacFadden 40-100, 1962

Not Free SF Reader
One of multiple variations of this book. A 3.09 collection, so pretty ordinary, with the best stuff at the end. Mile Beyond the Moon : Make Mine Mars - C. M. Kornbluth Mile Beyond the Moon : The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy - C. M. Kornbluth Mile Beyond the Moon : The Little Black Bag - C. M. Kornbluth Mile Beyond the Moon : Everybody Knows Joe - C. M. Kornbluth Mile Beyond the Moon ...

Takeoff (Doubleday science fiction)

1 review
C. M Kornbluth

Doubleday, 1952

A Bit Dated But Good
"Takeoff" by C. M. Kornbluth was first published in 1952, and was nominated for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. Unlike the other nominee, "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut, or the winner "City" by Clifford D. Simak, "Takeoff" is a surprisingly ordinary book. It is very dated by the passage of time, and frankly it is difficult to understand why it would have been considered among the best ...

The Marching Morons (Ballantine SF, F760)

1 review
C. M. Kornbluth

Ballantine Books, 1963

Not Free SF Reader
Only 3.33 for this collection, with the title story the best. Marching Morons : The Marching Morons - C. M. Kornbluth Marching Morons : Dominoes - C. M. Kornbluth Marching Morons : The Luckiest Man in Denv - C. M. Kornbluth Marching Morons : The Silly Season - C. M. Kornbluth Marching Morons : MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie - C. M. Kornbluth Marching Morons : The Only Thing We ...

The Syndic (Doubleday science fiction)

2 reviews
C. M Kornbluth

Doubleday, 1953

SF with an Econmics/Philosophy emphasis
Written in the golden age of science fiction, and shows it. Nevertheless, it's an interesting story that comes to some surprising conclusions. War has rendered significant portions of Europe either uninhabitable or barbaric. The U.S. Government has failed, to be replaced by organized crime -- Syndic is short for Syndicate. The unusual premise is that a well-run criminal organization is a better ...

Thirteen o'clock and other zero hours

1 review
C. M Kornbluth

Dell, 1970

Not Free SF Reader
An ordinary collection barring the first long story. At 3.13, you could mostly skip the rest if you wanted, although some amusment in the last tale. Thirteen O'Clock and Other Zero Hours : Thirteen O'Clock - C. M. Kornbluth Thirteen O'Clock and Other Zero Hours : The Rocket of 1955 - C. M. Kornbluth Thirteen O'Clock and Other Zero Hours : What Sorghum Says - C. M. Kornbluth Thirteen ...

Gunner Cade

2 reviews
C.M. Kornbluth, Cyril Judd, ...

Simon and Schuster, 1952

A Pulp Classic
Cyril Judd was the pen-name used by SF husband and wife writing team C. M. Kornbluth an Judith Merrill for this collaboration. In the far-flung future, soldiers, called "gunners" live as members of monastic-like orders. They fight only other gunners, who serve other lords, and all serve the Emperor. Unknown to them, the general public follows their exploits with sports-fan-like fascination -- ...

The Explorers

1 review
C. M. Kornbluth

Ballantine, 1963

Not Free SF Reader
"IN THE beginning there was S. D. Gottesman. Gottesman was born in the early stages of World War II, and science-fiction readers liked him very much. He became a fixture in half-a-dozen magazines of the timesome of them no longer with usand shortly was joined by a number of other by-lines, attached to much the same sort of wry and colorful story. There was Cecil Corwin and Ganriel Barclay and ...

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