"IN THE beginning there was S. D. Gottesman. Gottesman was born in the early stages of World War II, and science-fiction readers liked him very much. He became a fixture in half-a-dozen magazines of the time—some of them no longer with us—and shortly was joined by a number of other by-lines, attached to much the same sort of wry and colorful story. There was Cecil Corwin and Ganriel Barclay and Walter C. Davies and a good many more, and if the stories seemed closely related to each other, it was easy enough to understand. For behind these pen-names—eighteen or nineteen of them—stood a single bland-faced, sharp-tongued teenager, whose real name was Cyril Kornbluth."
After filling fair chunks of magazines himself, then apparently he got serious, and stuff like this arrived (averaging 3.61):
Explorers : Gomez - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : The Mindworm - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : The Rocket of 1955 - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : The Altar at Midnight - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : Thirteen O'Clock - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : The Goodly Creatures - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : Friend to Man - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : With These Hands - C. M. Kornbluth
Explorers : That Share of Glory - C. M. Kornbluth
Unified field theory discovery lost in hormone wash, perhaps.
4 out of 5
Vampire forgets he is not unique, meets Mr. Pointy and Mr. Reaper.
3.5 out of 5
Killer launch.
3 out of 5
Spacer explanations.
3.5 out of 5
Grandpa's magic gangster racket.
4 out of 5
Space writing experience.
3.5 out of 5
Posse alien.
3 out of 5
Starving artist inefficiencies.
3.5 out of 5
Night court terminated for metal war avoidance gem deal.
4.5 out of 5
4 out of 5
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