Para Além do Futuro

by C.M. Kornbluth, Eurico da Fonseca (Translator)

Cover artist: Manuel Dias

200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Cyril M. Kornbluth grew up in Inwood in New York City. As a teenager, he became a member of the Futurians, the influential group of science fiction fans and writers. While a member of the Futurians, he met and became friends with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Donald A. Wollheim, Robert A. W. Lowndes, and his future wife Mary Byers. He also participated in the Fantasy Amateur Press Association.

Kornbluth served in the US Army during World War II (European Theatre). He received a Bronze Star for his service in the Battle of the Bulge, where he served as a member of a heavy machine gun crew. Upon his discharge, he returned to finish his education, which had been interrupted by the war, at the University of Chicago. While living in Chicago he also worked at Trans-Radio Press, a news wire service. In 1951 he started writing full time, returning to the East Coast where he collaborated on a number of novels with his old Futurian friends Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril (as Cyril Judd).

He used a variety of pen-names: Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, Jordan Park, Arthur Cooke, Paul Dennis Lavond and Scott Mariner.

Reviews

[Zantaeus Glom]

This poor fellow died far too young; since the literary world was cruelly denied many more fabulous tales, since many of his well-crafted short stories are some of the very best: written in any genre. (There is a very darkly mordant wit at work in some of these bitter-sour tales, so terribly lacking in much contemporary horror/sf)

C.M Kornbluth was a class act. (And one sincerely hopes he is being taught; as any writer; nascent, or otherwise, could learn much from his especially engaging style of writing)

[Babete]

( Para além do futuro )

[Sérgio Azevedo]

Algumas histórias interessantes mas sem nada muito excitante