@booklet {1869, title = {"Critical Mass"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Magazine}, volume = { 20.3 }, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. in their\ The Wonder Effect\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 11-46.

}, month = {February 1962}, pages = {8-41}, abstract = {

Satiric dystopia of a future U.S. obsessed with bomb shelters.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1830, title = {"A Gentle Dying"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Magazine }, volume = {19.5 }, year = {1961}, note = {

Rpt. in their\ The Wonder Effect\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 47-54.

}, month = {June 1961}, pages = {68-75}, abstract = {

Dystopian satire on the innocence of children. A wealthy children\&$\#$39;s book author establishes a research institute to find ways for children to avoid growing up. Successful, the children then eliminate all adults; only the author is allowed to die a natural death.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1745, title = {Wolfbane}, year = {1959}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in\ Galaxy Science Fiction\ 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.

}, month = {1959}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1724, title = {"Reap the Dark Tide"}, howpublished = {Vanguard Science Fiction }, volume = {1.1}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. as \"Shark Ship.\" In\ his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1958), 166-196;\ in\ Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in\ Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305.

}, month = {June 1958}, pages = {99-127}, abstract = {

Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1725, title = {"Two Dooms"}, howpublished = {Venture Science Fiction }, volume = {2.4 (10)}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 20 (April 1965): 72-112; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 264-310; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 284-336; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 274-308.

}, month = {July 1958}, pages = {4-49}, abstract = {

A future dystopia dominated by the Japanese because U.S. atomic scientists decided not to make the bomb.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1579, title = {Gladiator-at-Law}, year = {1955}, note = {

U.K. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.\ 

}, month = {1955}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Capitalist, corporate, machine dominated dystopia with the novel focusing on the struggle to bring down one large, corrupt corporation.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1569, title = {Not This August}, year = {1955}, note = {

Garden City, NY Doubleday_

}, month = {1955}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the U.S. under a combined Chinese and Soviet Communism, which is defeated in the last pages.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1514, title = {Search the Sky}, year = {1954}, note = {

UK ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1970. Rev. ed. New York: Baen Books, 1985. According to a note on the copyright page, this edition is substantially different from the earlier one.

}, month = {1954}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Although humans have colonized space, they have degenerated and are in danger of dying out and few people care. One person is searching for the answer and by the end of the novel it becomes possible to rebuild a vigorous humanity.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1462, title = {The Syndic}, year = {1953}, note = {

Also published in\ Science Fiction Adventures\ 2.1 - 2 (December 1953 - March 1954): 6-60, 82-156. Rpt. London: Sphere, 1968; and New York: Tor, 1982, with an \“Introduction to THE SYNDIC, by C.M. KORNBLUTH\” by Frederik Pohl (7-10) and \“A Personal Note\” by H.L. Gold (248-56)..

}, month = {1953}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Militaristic government from the U.S. is relocated in Ireland. The Western U.S. is mob controlled while the Eastern U.S. is permissive.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1408, title = {Gunner Cade}, year = {1952}, note = {

Also published in\ Astounding Science Fiction\ 49.1 - 3 (March - May 1952): 8-53; 114-60; 108-54. Rpt. in their\ Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow\ (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2008), 9-135. Abbreviated as an Ace Double bound with 1957 Piper and McGuire. New York: Ace Books, 1957. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.

}, month = {1952}, publisher = {Simon and Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) and [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97)} } @booklet {1409, title = {"The Luckiest Man in Denv"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = { 4.3}, year = {1952}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 188-202; in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 179-93; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 151-63; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 70-82; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 70-83; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 108-17. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

}, month = {June 1952}, pages = {147-59}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. People live in huge high-rise buildings with their status determining how high they live. Constant war. The story focuses on intrigue in trying to move up the building.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1413, title = {The Space Merchants}, year = {1952}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. U.S. ed. rpt. in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-155 with \“Biographical Notes\” (777-79) \“Notes on the text\” (783-86) and \“Notes\” (789-99); and in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 1-158. [21st Century ed.]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2011, with \“Preface The Story of the Space Merchants\” (v-xii). A different version, was published as \“Gravy Planet.\” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 4.3 - 5 (June - August 1952): 4-61, 108-59, 104-59. This version has some wording differences, mostly minor, throughout the text and three concluding chapters not found in the book. These three chapters are rpt. in the Library of American edition (791-99).\ 

}, month = {1952/1953}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Advertising, overpopulation and corporate dystopia. See also 1984 Pohl.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) and C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1379, title = {"The Marching Morons"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction }, volume = {2.1 }, year = {1951}, note = {

\ Rpt. in his\ The Mindworm\ (London: Joseph, 1955), 219-56; in\ Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 23-54; in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 113-38, with an editor\’s note on 113 and \“Questions\” on 138;\ in\ The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 133-63;\ The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 138-72; in\ The Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 47-82; in\ The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A. Ed. Ben Bova (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973), 204-32; and in\ His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 372-95. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

}, month = {April 1951}, pages = {128-58}, abstract = {

Dystopia. High birth rate of the lower classes produces a nation of morons.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} } @booklet {1391, title = {"Mars Child"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = {2.2 - 4 }, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Outpost Mars. By Cyril Judd [pseud.]. New York: Abelard Press, 1952; and in their\ Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow\ (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2008), 137-296.

}, month = {May - July 1951}, pages = {18-76, 94-156, 44-115}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Large mining corporation on Mars in conflict with a small community of settlers, which could be seen in a eutopian light.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Male author, US author}, author = {[Cyril Michael] [Kornbluth] (1923-58) and [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97)} } @booklet {8905, title = {"The Little Black Bag"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction}, volume = {44.5 }, year = {1950}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 415-21 with an editor\’s note on 415.

}, month = {July 1950}, pages = {132-50, 152-61}, abstract = {

A medical bag from an obviously medically eutopian future accidently appears in a contemporary slum and transforms the lives of the doctor who cared for the slum dwellers even though he had been prohibited from practicing and the people of the slum. Then the future takes the bag back.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58)} }