Synopsis
Two men hatch a scheme to get rich raising money for a rocket to Mars.
History
First publication: Stirring Science Stories, April 1941
Written in August 1939 and published in a fanzine under the pseudonym Cecil Corwin.
Review
Considered a classic, but extremely short. It is interesting for it’s cynical attitude toward humanity, but is it really all that far off? Still, it is only a good little filler story.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
The Great SF Stories 3 (1941), edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, paperback, DAW Books, 1980-03-00
The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, edited by Frederik Pohl, hardcover, Taplinger, 1977-11-00
His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth, hardcover, NESFA Press, 2009-12-00
