The Explorers is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer C. M. Kornbluth, originally published in paperback by Ballantine Books in 1954.

J. Francis McComas said "I know of no better introduction to [Kornbluth's] remarkable work than this collection of his more recent short stories".

He praised Kornbluth's "gift with language" and "his future worlds postulated with an ironic appreciation of human frailty [and] his deadpan extension of ridiculous present-day institutions to their ultimate idiocy".

[6] Anthony Boucher declared that "Kornbluth's sharp observation is everywhere present, and in most of the stories his bitter insight into the hearts and souls of future men (and by implication, into our own)".

[9] P. Schuyler Miller recommended the collection, singling out "With These Hands" for "projecting the plight of the creative artist in a wholly mechanized world".