Ben Bova: The ‘Marching Morons’ show prescience of science fiction | BonitaNews.com

Ben Bova: The ‘Marching Morons’ show prescience of science fiction | BonitaNews.com: "The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.

The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion."