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Kornbluth, C.M.
THE EXPLORERS
book-date: 1954
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Ballantine
1963
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Paperback
Richard Powers
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ex-ChUSFA: stamp on first inside page, page 85. MORE INFO

The Explorers - the first collection of short stories by C. M. Kornbluth. Kornbluth was a master short story writer whose stories are still readable today (unlike many vintage SF writers.) SF suffered a major loss when he died in 1958.

(Foreword by Frederik Pohl)
Gomez
The Mindworm
The Rocket of 1955
The Altar at Midnight
Thirteen O'Clock
The Goodly Creatures
Friend to Man
With These Hands
That Share of Glory
(Afterword: About C. M. Kornbluth)

Most of these appeared in the short span of 1950 to 1952 - in Worlds Beyond (2), Galaxy (2), Magazine of F&SF, Ten Story Fantasy, Astounding. "Thirteen O'Clock" came from Stirring SF (1941.) "Gomez" was original to the 1954 edition (and reprinted the next year in New Worlds.) This is the first Kornbluth collection; there was a British variant in 1955 that contained 8/9 stories (plus 4 more): The Mindworm.