C. M Kornbluth
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Published more than 60 years ago, this dark and prescient story of a future devolved to idiocy remains one of the most frightening visions to have emerged from the science fiction of that decade. Envisioning a future United States overwhelmed by a citizenry of low IQ (a consequence of the overbreeding of the stupid) Kornbluth was in fact writing of an observed present. The steady, inexorable descent of human intelligence obsessed Kornbluth, was one...
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Throughout his career Kornbluth like many science fiction writers of his generation struggled with the issue of art's role in an increasingly technologized and dehumanized society. Did the creative artist, the individual work, have any role in a culture which was increasingly devoted to replication, to the homogenization of audience, to the suppression of irregularity or individuality? Was art in fact necessary or merely a distraction? Kornbluth was...
3) Mars Child
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The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes. It wanted people who knew how to solve the problem of simple survival. More than anything else it wanted independence form a doomed Earth-and it was in deadly danger of succeeding.
A gripping tale of adventure, survival, and defiance set on a future Mars.
4) Wolfbane
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"WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT! It was enough to curdle the blood. Haendl was proposing to fight-against the invulnerable, the almost godlike Pyramids! Haendl stood up. "Tropile, that's what this is all about!" He gestured around him. "Guns, tanks, airplanes-it's going to be us against them. Never mind the Sheep; they don't count. It's going to be Pyramids and Wolves, and the Pyramids won't win. And then-" He was glowing,...
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Search the Sky is a satirical science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1954 by Ballantine Books. Halsey's Planet is in decline, and when a generation ship arrives, having failed to contact six other planets, Ross is sent to discover the state of the interstellar colonies. He is given a ship, which can make the trip from colony to colony almost instantaneously. The technology used in the ship...
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It was a pleasant little town in the Northeast. It had never been hurricane country. When they heard that Diane was coming, they couldn't really believe it would harm them. And the hurricane itself didn't touch them. But the rains caused by the hurricane ravaged their little town as viciously as the worst artillery attack could have done. This is a powerful and tremendously graphic novel of people trapped in that town: and how they learned what a...
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Amazing Stories Volume 193 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Crisis!" by C. M. Kornbluth, "The Engineer" by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl, "Einstein's Planetoid" by C. M. Kornbluth & Robert W. Lowndes & Frederic Pohl and "Battleground" by Lester Del Rey.
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Amazing Stories Volume 170 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "Everybody Knows Joe", by C.M. Kornbluth, "Star Chamber", by H. B. Fyfe, "Nightmare On The Nose", by Evelyn E. Smith, "The Towers Of Titan" by Ben Bova and "Radio Mates" by Benjamin Witwer.
12) Not This August
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Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender, to the armies of China and Russia?
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C.M. Kornbluth was one of the Futurians (with such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Donald A. Wollheim, etc.) and produced a remarkable body of work until his untimely death at age 35. This volume collects 8 of his classic short stories - the best of his best - plus an introduction and bibliography by Bud Webster.
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"The Cosmic Expense Account."
"The Adventurer."
"The Altar at Midnight."
"The Marching Morons."
"The Little Black...
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Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He wrote prolifically during his short lifetime, and produced a remarkable body of work. This volume is the largest ebook collection of his work ever assembled. It includes:
TIME BUM
TAKEOFF
THE SYNDIC
THE ALTAR AT MIDNIGHT
CRISIS!
THE GOLDEN ROAD
KAZAM COLLECTS
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN DENV
MAKE MINE MARS
THE MARCHING MORONS
THE REVERSIBLE...
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At first it was just a lark-bribing the stewards to steal food, bribing the conductors to steal blankets, raiding the club car, becoming a trainful of drunks. But then-then they began stealing morphine, and after that they began swapping mates, and after that...
Finally the lights went out. And a modern-day miracle of streamlined engineering was turned into a cage of evil, human beings become beasts, and for three days the meaning of civilization...
17) Gladiator-At-Law
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CAUTION! You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machinewhere the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungleIn this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate...
18) Gravy Planet
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Mitchell Courtenay, the narrator of this story, had three grave problems-his wife Kathy, who refused to finalize their conditional marriage; the planet Venus; and the Conservationists, commonly known as "Connies" an outlawed organization. Kathy, a brilliant surgeon, disliked Courtenay's ideals. As a young star class copysmith in Fowler Schocken Associates, the largest advertising agency on Earth, Courtenay was dedicated to the highest principle of...
19) Search the Sky
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What is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle the far planets beyond our universe? Space-ships have been unable to evoke radar responses from these planets, and in a novel as well-written as it is ingenious, one man starts out from Halsey's Planet to find the answer. If there is one... A satirical science fiction novel first published in 1954.
20) Search the Sky
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Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony...