The Marching Morons

Cyril M. Kornbluth wrote science fiction in the decades after the Second World War, and his peers knew him as a writer who loved bending familiar genre ideas into odd shapes. This collection gathers nine of his shorter works, each one sharp, funny and unexpected in its own way. The title story imagines a man who volunteers for cryogenic freezing and wakes in a future that has drifted far from the one he left.

The remaining pieces range across the collection's imagined futures and tangled social arrangements. Their titles include "Dominoes," "The Luckiest Man in Denver," "The Silly Season," "Ms. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie," "The Only Thing We Learn," "The Cosmic Charge Account," "I Never Ast No Favors," and "The Remorseful."

The book suits readers who enjoy satire wrapped in science fiction and want to see how a classic-era writer turned sharp ideas about society into entertaining stories.