Mindworm, the (1950) [Short Story]
by Cyril M. Kornbluth
Rating: Weighted - 7.9 / Average - 8.0 of 10 (1 votes) (Rate!)
Reviews: None (show them) Review!
|
|
Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
Affected by radiation, an unwanted boy feeds by reading the thoughts of others. Originally published in Worlds Beyond, December 1950.
Reprinted in:
- Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories: 12 (1950), ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1984
- Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, 1985
- Vampires, ed. Alan Ryan, SFBC, 1987
- Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series, ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, Crown/Bonanza, 1988
- Great Vampires & Other Horrors, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press, 1992
- Weird Vampire Tales, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy, 1992
- A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books, 1996
- His Share of Glory, NESFA Press, 1997
Original title: The Mindworm
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Vampires
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Species Evolution→ Psionic Powers
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951, the (1951) [Anthology]
Authors: Alfred Bester
, Ray Bradbury
, Poul Anderson
, L. Sprague de Camp
, A.E. van Vogt
, Fritz Leiber
, Frank Belknap Long
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Richard Matheson
, Gordon R. Dickson
, Fredric Brown
, Reginald Bretnor
, Frank M. Robinson
, Katherine MacLean
, William F. Temple
, Charles Leonard Harness
, Bill Brown
, Roger Flint Young
Boris Karloff's Favorite Horror Stories (1965) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Roald Dahl
, August Derleth
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Evan Hunter
, John Jakes
, Edmond Hamilton
, Frank Gruber
Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) [Anthology]
Authors: Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Stephen King
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ambrose Bierce
, William Faulkner
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Henry James
, H. G. Wells
, Winston Churchill
, Truman Capote
, Thomas M. Disch
, Barry N. Malzberg
, Ramsey Campbell
, William F. Nolan
, Charles L. Grant
, Fritz Leiber
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Robert Sheckley
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Henry Slesar
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Bill Pronzini
, Karl Edward Wagner
, Theodore Dreiser
, Jack Dann
, John Lutz
, Evan Hunter
, Edward D. Hoch
, Arthur Porges
, Fredric Brown
, Ray Russell
, Theodore R. Cogswell
, Cornell Woolrich
, Robert Phillips
, Adobe James
, Elizabeth Morton
Penguin Book of Vampire Stories, the (1987) [Anthology]
Authors: M. R. James
, Bram Stoker
, George Gordon Byron
, Tanith Lee
, Algernon Blackwood
, Ramsey Campbell
, August Derleth
, Charles Beaumont
, Charles L. Grant
, Fritz Leiber
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Richard Matheson
, Steve Rasnic Tem
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
, F. Marion Crawford
, Alan Ryan
, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
, Carl Jacobi
, Robert Aickman
, Suzy McKee Charnas
, R. Chetwynd-Hayes
, E. F. Benson
, Unknown Author
, James Malcolm Rymer
, John Polidori
, P. Schuyler Miller
|
