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Table of Contents:

• Everybody Knows Joe - (1953) - shortstory
• Kazam Collects - (1941) - shortstory
• Make Mine Mars - (1952) - novelette
• Passion Pills - shortstory
• Shark Ship - novelette (variant of Reap the Dark Tide)
• The Adventurer - (1953) - shortstory
• The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy - (1958) - shortstory
• The Last Man Left in the Bar - (1957) - shortstory
• The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette
• The Meddlers - (1953) - shortstory
• The Slave - (1957) - novelette
• The Words of Guru - (1941) - shortstory
• Time Bum - (1953) - shortstory
• Two Dooms - (1958) - novella
• Virginia - (1958) - shortstory

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Mars-Tube - (1941)
• Trouble in Time - (1940)
• Vacant World - (1940)
• Best Friend - (1941)
• Before the Universe - (1940)
• Nova Midplane - (1940)
• The Extrapolated Dimwit - (1942)
• Afterword

Caution! You are about to enter a world...

...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.

...where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.

...where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine.

...where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle.

In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interest--battles them in board meetings and in dark alley--in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises about the future... promises we are beginning to make right now.

His Share of Glory contains all the short science fiction written soley by C.M. Kornbluth. Many of the stories are SF "classics" such as "The Matching Morons", "The Litlte Black Bag", "Two Dooms", "The Mindworm", "Thirteen O'Clock", and of course, "That Share of Glory". His Share of Glory contains all of Kornbluth's short science fiction, fifty-six works of short SF in all, witht he original bibliographic details including pseudonymous by-line.

Table of Contents:

• Cyril - (1997) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Editor's Introduction - essay by Timothy P. Szczesuil
• That Share of Glory - (1952)
• The Adventurer - (1953)
• Dominoes - (1953)
• The Golden Road - (1942)
• The Rocket of 1955 - (1939)
• The Mindworm - (1950)
• The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957)
• Shark Ship - (1958)
• The Meddlers - (1953)
• The Luckiest Man in Denv - (1952)
• The Reversible Revolutions - (1941)
• The City in the Sofa - (1941)
• Gomez - (1954)
• Masquerade - (1942)
• The Slave - (1957)
• The Words of Guru - (1941)
• Thirteen O'Clock - (1941)
• Mr. Packer Goes to Hell - (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 - (1941)
• The Perfect Invasion - (1942)
• The Adventurers - (1955)
• Kazam Collects - (1941)
• The Marching Morons - (1951)
• The Altar at Midnight - (1952)
• Crisis! - (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 - (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 - (1941)
• The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy - (1958)
• Early "to spec" Stories - (1997)
• King Cole of Pluto - (1940)
• No Place to Go - (1941)
• Dimension of Darkness - (1941)
• Dead Center - (1941)
• Interference - (1941)
• Forgotten Tongue - (1941)
• Return from M-15 - (1941)
• The Core - (1942)

After the Russians and Chinese conquer America, a savage dictatorship is imposed. The hero becomes involved in a resistance plot to launch a satellite armed with nuclear weapons, hoping to threaten the enemy into surrendering.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Stories of the Sixties - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Critical Mass - (1962) - novelette
• The World of Myrion Flowers - (1961) - shortstory
• The Engineer - (1956) - shortstory
• A Gentle Dying - (1961) - shortstory
• Nightmare with Zeppelins - (1958) - shortstory
• The Quaker Cannon - (1961) - novelette
• The 60/40 Stories - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Trouble in Time - (1940) - shortstory
• Mars-Tube - (1941) - novelette
• Epilogue to The Space Merchants - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Gravy Planet (excerpt) - shortfiction
• The Final Stories - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Mute Inglorious Tam - (1974) - shortstory
• The Gift of Garigolli - (1974) - novelette
• The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Vanguard Science Fiction, June 1958, The story can also be found in the anthology Dark Stars (1969), edited by Robert Silverberg. It is included in the collections A Mile Beyond the Moon (1958) and His Share of Glory: The Complete Works of C.M. Kornbluth (1997).

Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars... The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive.

Next stop... the moon! Out in the remote California desert Mike Novak was sitting on a powder keg. He was working on the biggest thing since the atom bomb! Hired to build a mock-up fuel tank for a mock-up spaceship, Mike discovered he was looking at a design that could actually work! A design that would soon turn his life upside down. Here is a wildly exciting story torn from newspaper headlines--the story of man's first triumphant step into outer space. It is an unforgettable, nerve-clenching novel of the first moon-rocket and the men who dared to build it--told by one of the great masters of science fiction... C. M. Kornbluth.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 (1958) edited by Frederik Pohl. The story can also be found in the anthologies Star of Stars (1960), edited by Frederik Pohl, and 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978), edited by Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg and Isaac Asimov. It is included in the collections The Best of C. M. Kornbluth (1976) and His Share of Glory: The Complete Works of C.M. Kornbluth (1997).

Hugo Award winning short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1972. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 (1973), edited by Terry Carr, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Collection (1973), edited by Lester del Rey, and The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75) (1977), edited by Isaac Asimov. It is included in the collections Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (1987) and Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories (2005).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Wonder Effect) - (1962) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Critical Mass - (1962) - novelette
• A Gentle Dying - (1961) - shortstory
• Nightmare with Zeppelins - (1958) - shortstory
• Best Friend - (1941) - shortstory
• The World of Myrion Flowers - (1961) - shortstory
• Trouble in Time - (1940) - shortstory
• The Engineer - (1956) - shortstory
• Mars-Tube - (1941) - novelette
• The Quaker Cannon - (1961) - novelette

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1958. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eighth Series (1959), edited by Anthony Boucher. It is included in the collection His Share of Glory: The Complete Works of C.M. Kornbluth (1997).

The Earth has forcibly been taken from its orbit. It began with an extra-terrestrial pyramid on top of Mt. Everest. And then a "runaway planet" took the Earth as its binary. And now harsh generations have passed since the inhabitants last saw the light of their sun, Sol. Society has grown rigid. The meek lambs have inherited the Earth, even it's a very poor Earth, indeed. It's a hard world for all. But Glenn Tropile is no lamb and if his citizens finds out he's a wolf, it will be the wolf that goes to slaughter.

He startled the SF world with his innovative stories and brilliant new ideas...he was a leading proponent of the genre's second golden age...he mingled hard-edged science fiction with delicate webs of fantasy for a blend of unequaled speculative writing....

His name was Cyril M. Kornbluth, and for a short span of time in the late 1940s and 1950s his star shone as bright as a super nova...then winked out due to an untimely death. Today his stories are as fresh and exciting as when they were first written, and this handsome 19-story edition is ample testimony to his creative imagination.

Table of Contents:

• "An Appreciation," [Frederik Pohl]
• "The Rocket of 1955," 1939
• "The Words of Guru" [as by Kenneth Falconer], 1941
• "The Only Thing We Learn," 1949
• "The Adventurer," 1953
• "The Little Black Bag," 1950
• "The Luckiest Man in Denv" [as by Simon Eisner], 1952
• "The Silly Season," 1950
• "The Remorseful," 1953
• "Gomez," 1954
• "The Advent on Channel Twelve," 1958
• "The Marching Morons," 1951
• "The Last Man Left in the Bar," 1957
• "The Mindworm," 1950
• "With These Hands," 1951
• "Shark Ship" ["Reap the Dark Tide"], 1958
• "Friend to Man," 1951
• "The Altar at Midnight," 1952
• "Dominoes," 1953
• "Two Dooms," 1958

A novel of a future age when organized crime legalizes itself -- and turns America into a utopia.

Here is Venus, Inc., a two-in-one volume containing the 1952 classic, The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, and The Merchants' War, Pohl's brilliant new sequel to the previous masterpiece - a blistering satirical vision of Earth's foreseeable future, when advertising has gone mad, and society is divided into those who sell and the lowly consumers who buy . . and buy . . .and buy. It is a civilization in which no one eats natural foods, artificially cultivated meat cells provide all protein, soft drinks are laced with "harmless" addictives to ensure product loyalty - and onle the Conservationist rebels, or Consies, battle the status quo, waging an underground war against the powerful, exploitative advertising agencies that run the world.

It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.