C.M. Kornbluth

C.M. Kornbluth (born 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 21, 1958, Waverly, N.Y.) was an American writer whose science-fiction stories reflect a dark, acerbic view of the future. Kornbluth published science-fiction stories as a teenager. Called the Futurians, he and other young writers, including Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl (his frequent coauthor), composed and edited most of the tales in such sci-fi magazines as Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories. Extremely prolific, Kornbluth wrote under...