Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians.
1, No 2, August 1939); his first collaboration, "Stepsons of Mars," written with Richard Wilson and published under the name "Ivar Towers", appeared in the April 1940 Astonishing.
Packer Goes to Hell”, both 1941]”, [first combined appearance here] * "The Rocket of 1955”, 1939 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "The Reversible Revolutions" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The City in the Sofa" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The Golden Road" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "MS.
1, No 2, August 1939); his first collaboration, "Stepsons of Mars," written with Richard Wilson and published under the name "Ivar Towers", appeared in the April 1940 Astonishing.
Gottesman], 1940 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "Mars-Tube [as by S.
Gottesman (with Frederik Pohl)], 1940 * "Vacant World" [as by Dirk Wylie (with Dirk Wylie, and Frederik Pohl)], 1940 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Gottesman (with Frederik Pohl)], 1940 * "The Extrapolated Dimwit" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1940 * "Mars-Tube" [as by S.
Kornbluth (1997) – this includes almost all of Kornbluth's solo fiction, but does not include all of the collaborative pseudonymous works which were published among his earliest work between 1940 and 1942, some of which were published in Before the Universe (1980). * "Cyril”, [Frederik Pohl] * "Editor’s Introduction”, [Timothy P.
Gottesman], 1940 * "No Place to Go" [as by Edward J.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Gottesman]”, 1941 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 Best Science Fiction Stories of C.
Packer Goes to Hell”, both 1941]”, [first combined appearance here] * "The Rocket of 1955”, 1939 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "The Reversible Revolutions" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The City in the Sofa" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The Golden Road" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "MS.
Gottesman (with Frederik Pohl)], 1941 * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Gottesman (with Frederik Pohl)], 1941 * "Nova Midplane" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "Epilogue to The Space Merchants”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Gravy Planet”, (extract from the magazine serial, not used in the book) * "The Final Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Mute Inglorious Tam”, 1974 * "The Gift of Garigolli”, 1974 * "The Meeting”, 1972 * "Afterword”, (Pohl) His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Perfect Invasion" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy”, 1958 * "King Cole of Pluto" [as by S.
Bellin], 1941 * "Dimension of Darkness" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "Dead Center" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "Interference" [as by Walter C.
Davies], 1941 * "Forgotten Tongue" [as by Walter C.
Davies], 1941 * "Return from M-15" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Core" [as by S.
Packer Goes to Hell”, both 1941]”, [first combined appearance here] * "The Rocket of 1955”, 1939 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "The Reversible Revolutions" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The City in the Sofa" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The Golden Road" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "MS.
Gottesman (with Frederik Pohl)], 1942 The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M.
Kornbluth (1997) – this includes almost all of Kornbluth's solo fiction, but does not include all of the collaborative pseudonymous works which were published among his earliest work between 1940 and 1942, some of which were published in Before the Universe (1980). * "Cyril”, [Frederik Pohl] * "Editor’s Introduction”, [Timothy P.
Gottesman], 1942 * "The Adventurers”, 1955 * "Kazam Collects" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Last Man Left in the Bar”, 1957 * "Virginia”, 1958 * "The Advent on Channel Twelve”, 1958 * "Make Mine Mars”, 1952 * "Everybody Knows Joe”, 1953 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 * "Sir Mallory’s Magnitude" [as by S.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
In 1951 he started writing full-time, returning to the East Coast where he collaborated on novels with his old Futurian friends Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril. ==Work== Kornbluth began writing at 15.
He trained himself by putting gradually less cream into each cup of coffee he drank, until he eventually "weaned himself" (Knight's description) and switched to black coffee. ==Bibliography== ===Novels=== Outpost Mars (1952) (with Judith Merril, writing as Cyril Judd), first published as a Galaxy serial entitled Mars Child (May–July 1951) and later reprinted as Galaxy novel No.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie", "Gomez" and "The Advent on Channel Twelve". "The Little Black Bag" was first adapted for television live on the television show Tales of Tomorrow on May 30, 1952.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Last Man Left in the Bar”, 1957 * "Virginia”, 1958 * "The Advent on Channel Twelve”, 1958 * "Make Mine Mars”, 1952 * "Everybody Knows Joe”, 1953 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 * "Sir Mallory’s Magnitude" [as by S.
Wollheim)) in Wollheim's anthology Prize Science Fiction in 1953. Biographer Mark Rich describes the 1958 story "Two Dooms" as one of several stories which are "concern[ed] with the ethics of theoretical science" and which "explore moral quandaries of the atomic age": Many of Kornbluth's novels were written as collaborations: either with Judith Merril (using the pseudonym Cyril Judd), or with Frederik Pohl.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Last Man Left in the Bar”, 1957 * "Virginia”, 1958 * "The Advent on Channel Twelve”, 1958 * "Make Mine Mars”, 1952 * "Everybody Knows Joe”, 1953 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 * "Sir Mallory’s Magnitude" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
His first solo story, "The Rocket of 1955", was published in Richard Wilson's fanzine Escape (Vol.
Packer Goes to Hell”, both 1941]”, [first combined appearance here] * "The Rocket of 1955”, 1939 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "The Reversible Revolutions" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The City in the Sofa" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "The Golden Road" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "MS.
Gottesman], 1942 * "The Adventurers”, 1955 * "Kazam Collects" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1940 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "Mars-Tube [as by S.
Kornbluth (1987) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, (Pohl) * "The Stories of the Sixties”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins”, 1958 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 * "The 60/40 Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 The Best of C.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Last Man Left in the Bar”, 1957 * "Virginia”, 1958 * "The Advent on Channel Twelve”, 1958 * "Make Mine Mars”, 1952 * "Everybody Knows Joe”, 1953 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 * "Sir Mallory’s Magnitude" [as by S.
Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians.
Wollheim)) in Wollheim's anthology Prize Science Fiction in 1953. Biographer Mark Rich describes the 1958 story "Two Dooms" as one of several stories which are "concern[ed] with the ethics of theoretical science" and which "explore moral quandaries of the atomic age": Many of Kornbluth's novels were written as collaborations: either with Judith Merril (using the pseudonym Cyril Judd), or with Frederik Pohl.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Kornbluth (1987) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, (Pohl) * "The Stories of the Sixties”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins”, 1958 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 * "The 60/40 Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Packer Goes to Hell" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "With These Hands”, 1951 * "Iteration”, 1950 * "The Goodly Creatures”, 1952 * "Time Bum”, 1953 * "Two Dooms”, 1958 * "Passion Pills”, 1958 * "The Silly Season”, 1950 * "Fire-Power" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Marching Morons”, 1951 * "The Altar at Midnight”, 1952 * "Crisis!" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1942 * "Theory of Rocketry”, 1958 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "Friend to Man”, 1951 * "I Never Ast No Favors”, 1954 * "The Little Black Bag”, 1950 * "What Sorghum Says" [as by Cecil Corwin], 1941 * "MS.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Last Man Left in the Bar”, 1957 * "Virginia”, 1958 * "The Advent on Channel Twelve”, 1958 * "Make Mine Mars”, 1952 * "Everybody Knows Joe”, 1953 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 * "Sir Mallory’s Magnitude" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy”, 1958 * "King Cole of Pluto" [as by S.
Basil Davenport, Advent Press, 1959.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Gottesman], 1941 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Gottesman]”, 1941 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 Best Science Fiction Stories of C.
Kornbluth (1987) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, (Pohl) * "The Stories of the Sixties”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins”, 1958 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 * "The 60/40 Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie”, 1957 * "The Only Thing We Learn”, 1949 * "The Cosmic Charge Account”, 1956 * "I Never Ask No Favors”, 1954 * "The Remorseful”, 1953 The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 * "Best Friend" [as by S.
Kornbluth (1987) (with Frederik Pohl) * "Introduction”, (Pohl) * "The Stories of the Sixties”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Critical Mass”, 1962 * "The World of Myrion Flowers”, 1961 * "The Engineer”, 1956 * "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 * "Nightmare with Zeppelins”, 1958 * "The Quaker Cannon”, 1961 * "The 60/40 Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Trouble in Time" [as by S.
It was later adapted for television by the BBC in 1969 for its Out of the Unknown series.
In 1970, the same story was adapted by Rod Serling for an episode of his Night Gallery series.
One of these stories, "The Meeting" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1972), was the co-winner of the 1973 Hugo Award for Best Short Story; it tied with R.
Gottesman], 1941 * "Epilogue to The Space Merchants”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Gravy Planet”, (extract from the magazine serial, not used in the book) * "The Final Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Mute Inglorious Tam”, 1974 * "The Gift of Garigolli”, 1974 * "The Meeting”, 1972 * "Afterword”, (Pohl) His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M.
One of these stories, "The Meeting" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1972), was the co-winner of the 1973 Hugo Award for Best Short Story; it tied with R.
Gottesman], 1941 * "Epilogue to The Space Merchants”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Gravy Planet”, (extract from the magazine serial, not used in the book) * "The Final Stories”, (Pohl, section introduction) * "Mute Inglorious Tam”, 1974 * "The Gift of Garigolli”, 1974 * "The Meeting”, 1972 * "Afterword”, (Pohl) His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M.
The Futurians (John Day, 1977) Pohl, Frederik.
The Way the Future Was: A Memoir (Ballantine Books, 1978) Rich, Mark.
In Memory Yet Green (Doubleday, 1979) and I.
Asimov: A Memoir (Doubleday, 1994) Knight, Damon.
Kornbluth (NESFA Press, 1997). ==Personality and habits== Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, Damon Knight, in his memoir The Futurians, and Isaac Asimov, in his memoirs In Memory Yet Green and I.
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