His Share of Glory

The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth

By: C. M. Kornbluth, Timothy P. Szczesuil - editor

Narrated by: Steve Baker

Length: 43 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

His Share of Glory contains all the short science fiction written solely by C. M. Kornbluth. Many of the stories are SF "classics", such as "The Marching Morons", "The Little Black Bag", "Two Dooms", "The Mindworm", "Thirteen O'Clock", and, of course, "That Share of Glory". His Share of Glory includes all of Kornbluth's solo short science fiction, fifty-six works of short SF in all, with the original bibliographic details including pseudonymous by-line. The introduction is by noted SF writer and life-long friend and collaborator of C. M. Kornbluth - Frederik Pohl.

©1997 The Estate of Cyril M. Kornbluth (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

i couldn't finish

the narrator is flat.
it was very hard to distinguish some of the characters.
and the writing is so frustrating dated sometimes, i was skiping chunks of the stories

not recommended, even for classic sci-fi addicteds

I'd buy that for a dollar

I had no idea that Kornbluth's stories were available on Audible. These have been an amazing listen. Even the stories that are not well-known classics are still great. Kornbluth was brilliant in the details. His endings usually have a punch that sticks with you.

Steve Baker's narration is quite good too -- I took a little bit to warm to his slow, steady, delivery, but soon began to appreciate the little touches. I imagine that it's difficult to narrate such a diverse collection. He did a good job at it.

Fun stories. Rough narration

Narrator could have been reading a tax form making this a tough listen. A shame since the majority of the stories were pretty fun

Golden Age sci-fi

I enjoyed this extensive collection of golden age science fiction. Most of the stories were very good, although many were fantasy and some of the earlier stories were of the pulp era pay per word variety. Worth a credit if you like the science fiction written in the first half of the 20th century.

chapter names

1. Introduction
2. Editor's introduction
3. that share of glory
4. The adventuer
5. Dominoes
6. The golden road
7. The rocket of 1955
8. The mindworm
9. The education of tigress mcartle
10. Sharkship
11. The meddlers
12. The luckest man in danv
13. The reversible revolutions
14. The city in the sofa
15. Gomez
16. Masquerade
17. The slave
18. The words of guru
19. 13 clock
20. Mr packer goes to hell
21. With these hands
22. Iteration
23. The goodly creatures
24. Time bum
25. Two dunes
26. A night, a day, and another night on the road
27. Passion pills
28. The silly season
29. Firepower
30. The perfect invasion
31. The adventures
32. Kazam collects
33. The marching morons
34. The altar at midnight
35. Crisis
36. Theory of rocketry
37. The cosmic charge account
38. Friend to man
39. I never asked no favors
40. The little black bag
41. What zorgam says
42. Manuscript found
in a chinese fortune cookie
43. The only thing we learn
44. The last man left in the bar
45. Virginia
46. The advent on channel 12
47. Make mine mars
48. Everybody knows joe
49. The remorseful
50. Sir malorys magnitude
51. The events leading down to the tragedy
52. King cole of pluto
53. No place to go
54. Dimension of darkness
55. Dead center
56. Interference
57. Forgotten tongue
58. Return from m-15
59. The core