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...Pohl & Kornbluth (the greatest double by-line in the history of SF, for my money [sorry, Jerry & Larry]) didn't write "marching morons" it was C.M. Kornbluth alone who wrote it. I used to think--in my boyhood wisdom--that it was Kornbluth who was the stronger of the partnership but SF literary history has proven me wrong. Kornbluth alone can't match up to Pohl's oeuvre--and from the SlaveShip compilation to Gateway and his City Tales Pohl overshadows Cyril's longer efforts, alone with his Syndic, and with others besides Pohl, see, Gunner Cade, with the great chronicler of two eras of SF, Judith Merrill. Kornbluth's shorter pieces are jewels-"'Morons" being a prime example along with "Two Dooms," of course, but Pohl, who got short shrift early on through "Space Merchants" "Search the Sky" "Wolfbane" and the very much overlooked "Gladiator-at-Law" all the way to "A Gentle Dying" was the heavy hitter in that partnership.
