Recent Syndics: C. M. Kornbluth

Cyril Michael Kornbluth (
July 23, 1923–March 21, 1958)

C. M. Kornbluth was an American science fiction author and member of the Futurians. He wrote under many pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S.D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, and Jordan Park.

Kornbluth was one of the few people who read the entire Encyclopedia Britanica, one volume at a time and was able to remember everything he read. He used literature and story telling to explain the purpose, differing ways, arising problems, and the amazing unexpected - all as the karmic fate of man, and worked at pushing out the limits of the human imagination while at the same time grounding this in complex emotional tensions and competent conscious movement through both the strangest realities and the most common realities within time frames of constant movement.

He was a prolific writer, his bibliography includes:

Novels:
1952.
Gravy Planet
Gunner Cade
Outpost Mars
Sin in Space (1961)
The Space Merchants

1953.
The Syndic

1954
Search the Sky

1955
Christmas Eve (1956 UK)
Gladiator-at-Law
Not This August

1957.
Wolfbane

1981.
Not This August (revised)
Collections:

1954.
The Explorers

1955.
The Mindworm and Other Stories

1958.
A Mile Beyond the Moon

1959.
The Marching Morons

1962.
The Wonder Effect

1968.
Best SF Stories of C. M. Kornbluth

1970.
Thirteen O'Clock and Other Zero Hours

1976.
The Best of C. M. Kornbluth

1977.
Critical Mass

1980.
Before the Universe

1987.
Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

1997.
His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cyril M. Kornbluth
Omnibus:

1985.
Venus, Inc.

Serials:
1951.
Mars Child (3 parts)

1952.
Gravy Planet (3 Parts)
Gunner Cade (3 Parts)
Takeoff (3 Parts)

1954.
Gladiator at Law (3 Parts

1957.
Wolfbane (2 Parts)

Short Fiction:
1939.
The Rocket of 1955

1940.
Before the Universe
King Cole of Pluto
Nova Midplane
Trouble in Time
Vacant World

1941.
Friend
Callistan Tomb
Kazam Collects
Mars-Tube
Sir Mallory's Magnitude
The City in the Sofa
The Reversible Revolutions
The Words of Guru
Thirteen O'Clock
Vacant World
What Sorghum Says
Return from M-15
The Martians Are Coming
Dimension of Darkness
No Place to Go
Fire-Power
Interference

1942.
Crisis!
Einstein's Planetoid
The Extrapolated Dimwit
The Golden Road

1949.
The Only Thing We Learn

1950.
Iteration
The Little Black Bag
The Mindworm
The Silly Season

1951.
Forgotten Tongue
Friend to Man
The Marching Morons
With These Hands

1952.
Make Mine Mars
That Share of Glory
That Share of Glory
The Altar at Midnight
The Goodly Creatures
The Luckiest Man in Denv

1953
Doinoes
Mask of Demeter
The Mask of Demeter
The Meddlers
The Remorseful
Time Bum
Sea-Change
The Adventurer
Everybody Knows Joe

1954.
Gomez
I Never Ast No Favors

1955.
The Adventurers

1956.
The Cosmic Charge Account
The Cosmic Expense Account
The Engineer

1957.
MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie
The Education of Tigress McCardle
The Education of Tigress McCardle
The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy
The Education of Tigress Macardle
The Slave
The Last Man Left in the Bar

1958.
Nightmare with Zeppelins
Passion Pills
Shark Ship
The Advent on Channel Twelve
Theory of Rocketry
Virginia
Reap the Dark Tide
Two Dooms
The Core

1961.
A Gentle Dying
1961.
A Hint of Henbane
The Quaker Cannon
The World of Myrion Flowers

1962.
Critical Mass
The Cosmic Expence Account

1967.
The Objective Approach

1972.
The Meeting

1974.
Mute Inglorious Tam
The Gift of Garigolli

1987.
Gravy Planet (Excerpt)

1988. Interplane Express

Essays:
1957.
Time Travel and the Law
Requiem for a Scientist

1959.
The Failure of the Science Fiction Novel as Social Criticism

1976.
About the Author

Poems:
1940.
The Song of the Rocket

1942.
Segment

1944.
Chant of the Black Magicians

1957.
The Unfortunate Topologist

Non-fiction:
1971.
The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism

Non-genre:

1953.
Half
Valerie

1955.
A Town is Drowning

1956.
Presidential Year
Sorority House