He was a friend and collabarator with [C.M. Kornbluth]?, co-authoring a number of short stories with him and several novels, including a dystopian satire of a world ruled by the advertising agencies, The Space Merchants. Besides the Space Merchants, a number of his short stories were notable for a satirical look at consumerism and advertising in the 1950s and 1960s: The Wizard of Pung's Corner, where flashy, overcomplex military hardware proves useless against farmers with shotguns, and The Tunnel Under the world, where an entire community is held captive by advertising researchers (this one-line summary omits several plot twists).
He edited [Worlds of If]? magazine in the 1960s.
He has published an autobiography, The Way the Future Was
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