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C. M. Kornbluth (1923–1958)

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Verk av C. M. Kornbluth

Venus är vår! (1953) 1,930 exemplar
Gladiator-at-law (1955) 529 exemplar
Nattens fångar (1957) 515 exemplar
Search the Sky (1954) 442 exemplar
Syndikatet - revolt i framtiden (1953) 422 exemplar
The Best of C. M. Kornbluth (1976) 343 exemplar
A Mile Beyond the Moon (1958) 227 exemplar
Not This August (1955) 205 exemplar
Critical mass (1977) 174 exemplar
Venus, Inc. (1984) 174 exemplar
Gunner Cade (1952) — Författare — 166 exemplar
The Wonder Effect (1962) 150 exemplar
The Explorers (1954) 102 exemplar
Outpost Mars (1951) 87 exemplar
Takeoff (1952) 51 exemplar
Crisis in 2140 / Gunner Cade (1957) 50 exemplar
The Marching Morons [Novella] (2011) 33 exemplar
The Altar at Midnight (1987) 31 exemplar
The Mindworm [short story] (1987) 23 exemplar
Gunner Cade & Takeoff (1983) 23 exemplar
Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (2008) — Författare — 20 exemplar
The Adventurer (1953) 18 exemplar
The Rocket of 1955 (1941) 15 exemplar
The Luckiest Man in Denv (1952) 15 exemplar
The Silly Season (1950) 14 exemplar
Reap the Dark Tide (1958) 13 exemplar
The Meeting [short fiction] (1972) 11 exemplar
Gomez 11 exemplar
Half (1953) 9 exemplar
The Advent On Channel Twelve (1958) 9 exemplar
Two Dooms 9 exemplar
Time Bum (1953) 8 exemplar
Dominoes 7 exemplar
Theory Of Rocketry (1958) 7 exemplar
Herold im All (1968) 7 exemplar
Friend to Man 6 exemplar
The Golden Road (1942) 5 exemplar
Sezon ogórkowy (1985) 5 exemplar
The Reversible Revolutions (1941) 5 exemplar
The City in the Sofa (1941) 5 exemplar
The Remorseful 5 exemplar
Presidential Year (1956) 5 exemplar
The Naked Storm (2016) 5 exemplar
The Last Man Left in the Bar (1957) 5 exemplar
Valerie (1957) 5 exemplar
Pollution: Omnibus (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Make Mine Mars [novelette] (1952) 4 exemplar
What Sorghum Says 4 exemplar
A Gentle Dying 4 exemplar
Kazam Collects (1941) 4 exemplar
Virginia (1958) 4 exemplar
King Cole Of Pluto 3 exemplar
Domek z kart (1985) 3 exemplar
The Meddlers 2 exemplar
Best Friend 2 exemplar
Dead Center 2 exemplar
Iteration 2 exemplar
Masquerade 2 exemplar
Jak wróciłem na Marsa (1994) 1 exemplar
CM Kornbluth 1 exemplar
Wilczojad 1 exemplar
Return From M-15 1 exemplar
CM Kornbluth 1 exemplar
Passion Pills 1 exemplar
Fire-power 1 exemplar
The Slave 1 exemplar
No Place To Go 1 exemplar
Interference 1 exemplar
Forgotten Tongue 1 exemplar
The Core 1 exemplar
Der Verräter (1958) 1 exemplar
Start zum Mond (1958) 1 exemplar
Frugate il cielo 1 exemplar
O Síndico 1 exemplar

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Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (1987) — Författare — 246 exemplar
The World Turned Upside Down (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 219 exemplar
The 1975 Annual World's Best SF (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 208 exemplar
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The Hugo Winners: Volume Three, Book 2 (1973-1975) (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 119 exemplar
Voyagers in Time (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 118 exemplar
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Galaxy, Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 112 exemplar
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 110 exemplar
Science Fiction of the 50's (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 110 exemplar
American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 103 exemplar
Star of Stars (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
First Contact (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
The Good Old Stuff (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 97 exemplar
The Crash of Empire (Imperial Stars, Book 3) (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Best SF Two (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
13 Above the Night (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 22nd Series (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
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Future Tense (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
New Dreams This Morning (1966) — Författare — 70 exemplar
Great Short Novels of Science Fiction (1970) — Författare — 68 exemplar
Alpha 1 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 67 exemplar
The Vintage Anthology of Science Fantasy. (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Dark Stars (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 65 exemplar
Masters of Fantasy (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Time Travelers (Fiction in the Fourth Dimension) (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Mind to Mind (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar
Aliens among Us (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
Timescapes (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 55 exemplar
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
Assignment in Tomorrow: An Anthology (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
Great Science Fiction about Doctors (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
The Second Science Fiction Megapack (2011) — Författare — 53 exemplar
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction : Book Two (1950) — Författare — 52 exemplar
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Alpha 6 (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
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The Shape of Things (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 41 exemplar
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Future Crimes (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
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100 Years of Science Fiction (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
What If? Volume 1 (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
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The Adventurer is from 1953. It is set both in a United States of America that appears to be a republic in name only. It's even called 'the Republic'. The presidency has become hereditary. The Soviet Union is the Republic's principal opponent. Premier Yersinsky is its current head. There's a balance of power between the two, which is why the Moon and Titan are Republic, Mars and Ganymede are Soviet, and Jupiter's Io and Callisto are each half and half. Part of the action is set in New Pittsburgh, the main settlement of the Repulbic half of Io.

We open with President Folsom XXIV, obviously a dim bulb completely unfit to be in charge of a restroom, let alone a republic. He is meeting with his Cabinet because he wants to buy the Nicolaides Collection of art. Not a dozen paragraphs later and we learn why opposing the president is a Very Bad Idea. Good thing the White House gym has a corner that isn't bugged, because the cabinet has things to discuss.

We switch to miner Grayson's house in New Pittsburgh, where little Tommy Grayson has been beaten up in school because someone claimed his father was a Soviet who'd crossed the line and changed his name. Grayson adds to the injuries and slaps Mrs. Grayson to get more money for booze. Mrs. Grayson encourages Tommy to do well in school.

President Folsom XXV takes over in an unpleasant scene.

Cadet Fourth Class Grayson at the academy has to be pulled off from strangling his roommate to death because the foolish lad was reading a letter from Thomas' mother without permission.

Years later, Present Folsom XXV is discussing getting the iron they desperately need without going to war. As it so happens, the Widow Grayson drags herself back from across the line into the Nizhi-Magnitogorsk settlement back to New Pittsburgh. She is not in good shape and has a harrowing tale about what was done to her on the Soviet's side.

A Republic ship captain is killed during the hostilities. His ship is taken over by Ensign Grayson, who succeeds and keeps on succeeding.

I was not expecting the revelations at the end. They are what prompted the extra half-star.
… (mer)
½
 
Flaggad
JalenV | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 26, 2024 |
This is a collection of short stories, novelettes, and novellas. The collection includes:

***'The Rocket of 1955' was first published in 1941. Our narrator claims the rocket scheme was Fein's, but he was blackmailed into helping. So was a well-regarded Viennese professor. Contributions totalled $152,285,248.22 in 2024 money. Then they got to work building that rocket. How successful was it? The author was still in his teens when he wrote this story.

****'The Words of Guru' has an almost 12-year-old protagonist named Peter. He tells us a little about his infancy, about the first time he did something (when he was ten), and something that has been easy for him to do since he was eight.

He's obviously a prodigy because Peter had been able to talk clearly since he was two months old. He can see things that normal people can't. He was still a baby when he first summoned Guru. Guru is willing to teach him things. The words Guru teaches Peter have power.

The scene in the Cavern out of Time and Space is a matter of concern. So is the little trip to No-place. Worse are the things Peter gets up to with the words Guru has taught him. The last word taught is the most frightening. I think I shall remember Peter as readily as I remember the boy in that original 'The Twilight Zone' episde, 'It's a Good Life'.

***½ The Only Thing We Learn' was published three years after the end of World War II. Mr. Kornbluth was a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge, and it left him with a strained heart that failed him in 1958, when he was 34.

The protagonist of this story is a history professor giving a lecture to the students in his Archaeo-Literature 203 class. He talks about the battle that led to the formation of their empire as known through old, middle, and new epics. He tells them that what they learned before wasn't exactly true, as archaeology has shown. We get snippits of the epics. I was not impressed.

The scene suddenly shifts to the historical battle from the Home Suns People's point of view. Wing Commander Arris is severely annoyed with drunken Glen, the chief archivist. Glen tells him something that makes Arris believe there's been a security leak, but it's only Glen's knowledge of history. Glen whispers something in Arris' ear that the Wing Commander doesn't believe. We're not told what it was, but when the scene returns to the lecture, we can guess.

I was a history major in college, so I gave this story an extra half-star for the professor pointing out what science has shown was wrong in the old epics.

***½ 'The Adventurer' is from 1953. It is set both in a United States of America that appears to be a republic in name only. It's even called 'the Republic'. The presidency has become hereditary. The Soviet Union is the Republic's principal opponent. Premier Yersinsky is its current head. There's a balance of power between the two, which is why the Moon and Titan are Republic, Mars and Ganymede are Soviet, and Jupiter's Io and Callisto are each half and half. Part of the action is set in New Pittsburgh, the main settlement of the Repulbic half of Io.

We open with President Folsom XXIV, obviously a dim bulb completely unfit to be in charge of a restroom, let alone a republic. He is meeting with his Cabinet because he wants to buy the Nicolaides Collection of art. Not a dozen paragraphs later and we learn why opposing the president is a Very Bad Idea. Good thing the White House gym has a corner that isn't bugged, because the cabinet has things to discuss.

We switch to miner Grayson's house in New Pittsburgh, where little Tommy Grayson has been beaten up in school because someone claimed his father was a Soviet who'd crossed the line and changed his name. Grayson adds to the injuries and slaps Mrs. Grayson to get more money for booze. Mrs. Grayson encourages Tommy to do well in school.

President Folsom XXV takes over in an unpleasant scene.

Cadet Fourth Class Grayson at the academy has to be pulled off from strangling his roommate to death because the foolish lad was reading a letter from Thomas' mother without permission.

Years later, Present Folsom XXV is discussing getting the iron they desperately need without going to war. As it so happens, the Widow Grayson drags herself back from across the line into the Nizhi-Magnitogorsk settlement back to New Pittsburgh. She is not in good shape and has a harrowing tale about what was done to her on the Soviet's side.

A Republic ship captain is killed during the hostilities. His ship is taken over by Ensign Grayson, who succeeds and keeps on succeeding.

I was not expecting the revelations at the end. They are what prompted the extra half-star.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
JalenV | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 24, 2024 |
'The Only Thing We Learn' was published three years after the end of World War II. Mr. Kornbluth was a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge, and it left him with a strained heart that failed him in 1958, when he was 34.

The protagonist of this story is a history professor giving a lecture to the students in his Archaeo-Literature 203 class. He talks about the battle that led to the formation of their empire as known through old, middle, and new epics. He tells them that what they learned before wasn't exactly true, as archaeology has shown. We get snippits of the epics. I was not impressed.

The scene suddenly shifts to the historical battle from the Home Suns People's point of view. Wing Commander Arris is severely annoyed with drunken Glen, the chief archivist. Glen tells him something that makes Arris believe there's been a security leak, but it's only Glen's knowledge of history. Glen whispers something in Arris' ear that the Wing Commander doesn't believe. We're not told what it was, but when the scene returns to the lecture, we can guess.

I was a history major in college, so I gave this story an extra half-star for the professor pointing out what science has shown was wrong in the old epics.
… (mer)
½
 
Flaggad
JalenV | 1 annan recension | Mar 24, 2024 |
'The Words of Guru' has an almost 12-year-old protagonist named Peter. He tells us a little about his infancy, about the first time he did something (when he was ten), and something that has been easy for him to do since he was eight.

He's obviously a prodigy because Peter had been able to talk clearly since he was two months old. He can see things that normal people can't. He was still a baby when he first summoned Guru. Guru is willing to teach him things. The words Guru teaches Peter have power.

The scene in the Cavern out of Time and Space is a matter of concern. So is the little trip to No-place. Worse are the things Peter gets up to with the words Guru has taught him. The last word taught is the most frightening. I think I shall remember Peter as readily as I remember the boy in that original 'The Twilight Zone' episde, 'It's a Good Life'.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
JalenV | Mar 24, 2024 |

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Frederik Pohl Afterword, Introduction, Editor
Clifford D. Simak Contributor
Ed Emsh Cover artist
Richard M. Powers Cover artist, Cover Artist
Edmund Crispin Introduction
Jael Cover artist
Dan Bittner Narrator
Karel Thole Cover artist
John Griffiths Cover artist
Tom Kidd Cover artist
John Berkey Cover artist
Okko H. Reussien Translator
Karel Meijer Cover artist
Louise Meermin Translator
Vincent DiFate Cover artist
Howard V. Chaykin Cover artist
Gary Viskupic Cover artist
Rus Anderson Cover artist
Dean Ellis Cover artist
Remy Charlip Illustrator
Richard Powers Cover artist
Mel Hunter Cover artist
Thomas Görden Translator
C.W. Bacon Cover artist
Paul Lehr Cover artist
Eddie Jones Cover artist
Jean Rosenthal Translator
Francis Valéry Translator
Ian Yeomans Cover photograph
Robert Stanley Cover artist
Isidre Mones Cover artist
Robert A. Maguire Cover artist
Joachim Körber Translator

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Medlemmar
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Betyg
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ISBN
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