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C M Kornbluth


(Cyril M Kornbluth)
USA flag (1923 - 1958)

aka Cecil Corwin, Kenneth Falconer, S D Gottesman, Cyril Judd

C.M. Kornbluth was the bureau chief of a Chicago news agency until 1951 when he took up fiction writing full time. He established himself very quickly as a brilliant short story writer with works such as 'The Little Black Bag', 'The Marching Morons', 'The Cosmic Charge Account' and 'Two Dooms'.
 

Awards: Hugo (2001)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl)
   1. The Space Merchants (1952)
     aka Gravy Planet
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Novels
   Gunner Cade (1952) (as by Cyril Judd)
   Outpost Mars (1952) (as by Cyril Judd)
     aka Sin in Space
   Takeoff (1952)
   The Syndic (1953)
   Search the Sky (1954) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Gladiator-at-Law (1955) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Not This August (1955)
     aka Christmas Eve
   A Town Is Drowning (1955) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Presidential Year (1956) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Wolfbane (1957) (with Frederik Pohl)
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Collections
   The Explorers (1954)
   The Mindworm (1955)
   A Mile Beyond the Moon (1958)
   The Marching Morons (1959)
   The Wonder Effect (1962) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Best Science Fiction Stories of C. M. Kornbluth (1968)
   Thirteen o'Clock and Other Zero Hours (1970) (as by Cecil Corwin)
   The Best of C. M. Kornbluth (1976)
   Critical Mass (1977) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Before the Universe (1980) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Our Best (1987) (with Frederik Pohl)
   His Share of Glory (1997)
   The Cosmic Expense Account (2010)
   Eight Worlds of C.M. Kornbluth (2010)
   Science Fiction Gems, Volume Two (2011) (with others)
   Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three (2012) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Thirteen O'Clock (1941) (as by Cecil Corwin)
   With These Hands (1951)
   Sea Change (2010) (with Judith Merril)
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Omnibus editions show
 
Books containing stories by C M Kornbluth
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Black Cat Weekly #130 (2024)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 130)
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Black Cat Weekly #134 (2024)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 134)
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
2001 Retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette : The Little Black Bag
1973 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Meeting

Award nominations
1998 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C M Kornbluth
1959 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Theory of Rocketry
1959 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Advent on Channel Twelve
1959 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Shark Ship
1956 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Not This August


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