C.M. Kornbluth

In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful...

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics....

In The Marching Morons, C. M. Kornbluth delivers a biting science fiction satire set in a future where intelligence has all but vanished. With society ruled by mediocrity and the average IQ plummeting, one cunning man from the past awakens to seize control.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night....

Search the Sky is a satirical science fiction novel set in the far future, at a time when humanity has long since colonized the stars. It begins on a planet called Halsey's, which is in a state of decline....

The five stories in this collection show a writer at the height of his powers....

His Share of Glory contains all the short science fiction written solely by C. M. Kornbluth....

The Earth has been ripped from the solar system by a runaway alien planet, whose inhabitants have their own sinister plans for Earth's resources. Humankind is dying out, but there are those who defy convention and refuse to give in....

When Efim Hawkins revives John Barlow—a slick man preserved from centuries past—Barlow awakens to a society in decline. Overpopulation has exploded. Education has collapsed. The average intelligence has plummeted. And the masses march forward under a system that rewards ignorance and conformity.

It was very simple. Some combination of low temperature and high pressure had forced something from the seepage at the ocean bottom into combination with something in the water around them. And the impregnable armor around Subatlantic Oil's drilling chamber had discovered a weakness....