Talk:Cyril M. Kornbluth

Kornbluth biblio

 * It would be interesting to have his mystery novels listed, as well as all his SF. Also, Outpost Mars was revised and reissued in 1961 as Sin in Space.
 * --K D Faber


 * I've added what I think is all of Kornbluth's non-SF novels. I think the reference to "several mystery novels" may have been a mistake for "mainstream." --Celithemis 13:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I am fairly certain there was no change to Outpost Mars for Sin In Space. The cover was salacious, like all the Galaxy Beacon books, but the text was not altered.

152.105.47.250 (talk) 10:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC) Ian

missing...
Reference to his short stories, like "The Little Black Bag"... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.139.120.189 (talk • contribs)


 * See the first three paragraphs under Work.  &mdash;Cel ithemis  20:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Middle name
I reverted the edit referring to his middle name; Kornbluth's wife's name was Mary, and that name appears on a collection published after his death, which is where the "Mary" most likely comes from. I'd have put a note in the edit summary but accidentally hit return halfway through typing the summary. Mike Christie (talk) 21:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Kornbluth definitely did not have a middle name - certainly not Michael. As Frederik Pohl has explained on several occasions, Kornbluth added the initial to denote his beloved wife Mary Byers. There is also no collection "by" Mary Kornbluth, there is an ANTHOLOGY edited by Mary, entitled SF SHOWCASE (1959), produced in memory of her late husband. Many of Kornbluth's friends and colleagues contributed to the volume: Poul Anderson, James Blish, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Murray Leinster (William F. Jenkins), Richard Matheson (an original novella), Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Williamson. 152.105.47.250 (talk) 10:41, 5 March 2010 (UTC) Ian

Pejorative ?
The line about SF fans' widely held belief in their own superiority seems unnecessarily nasty... couldn't this be made a bit less value-laden? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.244.76.2 (talk) 18:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Death in Waverly?
I am certain that on book jackets and/or short story writeups I've read that his death occurred in Levittown, NY. (Since I have family living in Levittown, it stuck with me.) It also makes much more sense, because Levittown, being in Nassau County, Long Island, the next county adjacent to New York City, is the kind of place that one would make a day trip into the City for a business meeting - the Long Island Rail Road is the nation's busiest commuter railroad line.

By contrast Waverly, in Tioga County, New York, is many hours by train from NYC; it's something like 180 miles away. You wouldn't take a train to a meeting unless it was an overnight trip. And if you lived in Waverly you wouldn't take a job as an editor in NYC (the subject of the meeting) unless you were planning to move, or live during the week in the City.

Other evidence comes from Cyril M. Kornbluth: One of Science Fiction's Forgotten Greats, which mentions Kornbluth's untimely demise as occurring on Long Island, although it does not specify Levittown. --Eliyahu S Talk 18:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Kornbluth lived on Celestial Lane, Levittown, close to Ed and Carol Emshwiller, for whom Kornbluth baby-sat on occasion. He died at the station. 152.105.47.250 (talk) 10:52, 5 March 2010 (UTC) Ian

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Article title
Why is this article titled Cyril M. Kornbluth instead of C. M. Kornbluth? states: "Wikipedia generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources)". His most commonly known name is his pen name (C. M. Kornbluth) as it is used in his works (see for example, or his works collected by Gutenberg). It is also used by sources such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ISFDB, several of his collections' titles (Best Science Fiction Stories of C. M. Kornbluth, The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth) and his biography (C. M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary). On the other hand "Cyril M. Kornbluth" is not even his official name, that is Cyril Kornbluth. What are the reliable English-language sources that support the use of "Cyril M. Kornbluth" as the title of this article? --JavierCantero (talk) 09:13, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Bibliography: "Spider Robinson praised this..."
The paragraph "Spider Robinson praised this..." seems strangely isolated. I can't be sure which collection it is referring to -- presumably the one immediately above it? Can someone clarify so we can fix this. Thanks -- BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 14:49, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Black Coffee Reference
Damon Knight may have described Cyril Kornbluth “weaning” himself off of milk in his coffee at some point, but the only mention of this practice in “The Futurians” is with regard to Chester Cohen (p. 62). 72.83.123.223 (talk) 18:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * As this section has been tagged for lacking sources for a number of years, and as you have checked a source and not found anything to support it, I have removed this paragraph from the article now. Thank you for checking The Futurians and letting us know what you found (or didn't, as it were). H. Carver (talk) 18:21, 23 September 2022 (UTC)