Frederik Pohl

C. M. Kornbluth

"La variedad de efectos es poco comun en los autores de anticipacion... con sus brillantes relatos de aventuras y su falta de curiosidad acerca del caracter humano. Una variedad que va mas alla de un mero reordenamiento se encuentra raramente, y la variedad de tono es mas escasa todavia. Aparece sin embargo en Mercaderes del espacio, que por muchas razones podria ser llamada la mejor novela de ciencia ficcion de las publicadas hasta ahora... Los campos de interes de los dos autores son apropiados para la construccion de una utopia donde el sistema economico ha devorado al sistema politico, donde las grandes companias ejercen el poder, sin intermediarios, y hasta el fin... y la sociedad ha sido estratificada rigidamente en productores, ejecutivos y consumidores... No es meramente un mundo donde el hombre de la publicidad es el rey; combina ademas el lujo y la escasez, aparatos fantasticos junto a la falta de combustible --Fowler Schoeken viaja en Cadillac a pedal--, toda clase de bebidas y gomas de mascar, y una extrema escasez de proteinas. En este aspecto recuerda una observacion de George Orwell sobre los lujos, en camino de convertirse en menos caros y faciles de obtener que los articulos de primera necesidad." Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell, 1961

Mercaderes del espacio

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 executives. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that all the products on the market improve the quality of life. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel. The planet Venus has just been visited and judged fit for human settlement, despite its inhospitable surface and climate; colonists would have to endure a harsh climate for many generations until the planet could be terraformed. Mitch Courtenay is a star-class copywriter in the Fowler Schocken advertising agency and has been assigned the ad campaign that would attract colonists to Venus, but a lot more is happening than he knows about. Mitch is soon thrown into a world of danger, mystery, and intrigue, where the people in his life are never quite what they seem, and his loyalties and core beliefs will be put to the test.

The Space Merchants

The Silly Season, The Marching Morons, and The Mindworn are just three of the acknowledged science fiction classics included in this masterful collection of nineteen tales all displaying the author's very best work! A must-have for all lovers of excellent old-style sci-fi.

The Best of C. M. Kornbluth

Murray Leinster

Francis Stevens

Milton Lesser

Fritz Leiber

Stephen Barr

H. Beam Piper

Frank Herbert

Mack Reynolds

Mark Clifton

Jerome Bixby

Frank Banta

Raymond Jones

Bradner Buckner

Arthur Feldman

Alex Apostolides

Russell Burton

Walter Bupp

Allan Danzig

Sterner Meek

James Schmitz

Robert Abernathy

The second volume of the Science Fiction Omnibus! Featuring the following masterpieces of sci-fi: WE'RE CIVILIZED!, by Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides WITH THESE HANDS, by C.M. Kornbluth WHERE THERE'S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS, by Russell Burton VIGORISH, by Walter Bupp THE MEMORY OF MARS, by Raymond Jones THE MATHEMATICIANS, by Arthur Feldman THE INVADERS, by Murray Leinster THE GREAT NEBRASKA SEA, by Allan Danzig THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING, by Bradner Buckner I AM A NUCLEUS, by Stephen Barr GUN FOR HIRE, by Mack Reynolds THE GRAVEYARD OF SPACE, by Milton Lesser THE GREAT DROUGHT, by Sterner Meek HANDYMAN, by Frank Banta NAUDSONCE, by H. Beam Piper THE FEELING, by Roger Dee MY FAIR PLANET, by Evelyn E. Smith FRIEND ISLAND, by Francis Stevens THE CARNIVORE, by G.A. Morris A GIFT FROM EARTH, by Manly Banister LET THERE BE LIGHT, by Horace Fyfe RIYA'S FOUNDLING, by Algis Budrys SPACE STATION 1, by Frank Long BULLET WITH HIS NAME, by Fritz Leiber I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, by Mack Reynolds THE AMBASSADOR, by Sam Merwin, Jr. GONE FISHING, by James Schmitz JUNIOR, by Robert Abernathy HALL OF MIRRORS, by Frederic Brown GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS, by H. Beam Piper OPERATION HAYSTACK, by Frank Herbert

The Science Fiction Omnibus #2 (Serapis Classics)

Doing something for humanity may be fine--for humanity--but rough on the individual!

The Altar at Midnight

Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender to the armies of China and Russia?

Not This August

In the distant future a man from the twentieth century wakes to find himself in an almost incomprehensible world...He realizes that the world has left him behind, but he just might have the key to the future of all mankind. Cyril M. Kornbluth was a highly influential science fiction writer who won both a Hugo Award and a Prometheus Award.

The Marching Morons

Collects eight of Kornbluth's classic science fiction stories.

Eight Worlds of C.M. Kornbluth

Frederick Pohl

“WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE, AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT! It was enough to curdle the blood. Haendl was proposing to fight—against the invulnerable, the almost godlike Pyramids! Haendl stood up. “Tropile, that’s what this is all about!” He gestured around him. “Guns, tanks, airplanes—it’s going to be us against them. Never mind the Sheep; they don’t count. It’s going to be Pyramids and Wolves, and the Pyramids won’t win. And then—” He was glowing, and the fever was contagious. Tropile felt his own blood begin to pound. Haendl hadn’t finished his “and then—”, but he didn’t have to. It was obvious. And then the Earth would go back to its own solar system, and an end to the five-year cycle of frost and hunger. And then the Wolves would rule a world worth ruling. This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Wolfbane

Gladiator-at-law

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 operates 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 interests—battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys—in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future...promises we are beginning to make right now. “...wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution.”—Galaxy “Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS”—Anthony Boucher. “...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year.”—The New York Times “...a powerfully convincing story.”—New York Herald Tribune

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