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The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth

The Marching Morons

C. M. Kornbluth, Alex Freeman, Integrated Media Systems, LLC

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 10, 2016

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Who it’s for
A man wakes in a future he can barely understand—and may hold its most consequential key.
Genres
Sci-Fi Short Stories, Funny Sci-Fi, Dystopian
Published
Start Publishing LLC, March 10, 2016

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About this book

In the distant future a man from the twentieth century wakes to find himself in an almost incomprehensible world...He realizes that the world has left him behind, but he just might have the key to the future of all mankind. Cyril M. Kornbluth was a highly influential science fiction writer who won both a Hugo Award and a Prometheus Award.

Out of Time

A man wakes in a future he can barely understand—and may hold its most consequential key.

Come here for

  • A twentieth-century perspective meeting a world that has moved on
  • Distant-future science fiction with a dystopian edge

Expect

  • Disorientation as the familiar becomes incomprehensible
  • A sharp tension between being left behind and mattering

Where it sits

Sci-Fi Short Stories68%
Dystopian58%
Funny Sci-Fi47%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi
  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Time Travel Fiction
Authors
C. M. Kornbluth, Alex Freeman, Integrated Media Systems, LLC
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
March 10, 2016
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Sci-Fi