C. M Kornbluth
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The Silly Season, The Marching Morons, and The Mindworn are just three of the acknowledged science fiction classics included in this masterful collection of nineteen tales all displaying the author's very best work!
A must-have for all lovers of excellent old-style sci-fi.
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,...
5) 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.
7) The Syndic
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"The Syndic" by C. M. Kornbluth. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
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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.
10) Search the Sky
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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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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) The Engineer
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The Big Wheels of tomorrow will be men who can see the big picture. But blowouts have small beginnings.... Includes an introduction by John Betancourt.
18) 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.
19) 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...
20) 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...