
Mack Reynolds
By the Author
Brain World
MILK RUN. That's what they told Ronny Bronston this job would be. "Just like a vacation," his boss had said. All he and the giant…
Border, Breed Nor Birth
The booming muskets and the cracking rifles suddenly began to fall off in intensity and the camelmen and the hordes of Tuareg women and naked…
Equality In the Year 2000
Julian West had been put into a hypnotic trance and placed in a sealed room. Then the house burned down and he was forgotten...until he…
Black Man's Burden
The turmoil in Africa is only beginning-and it must grow worse before it's better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans-not warring…
The Space Barbarians
John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup…
Amazon Planet
Amazonia had a reputation for strangeness even among the zany worlds of the United Federation of Planets. It was a spartan planet ruled by a…
The Towers of Utopia
SHYLER-DEME IS UNDER SEIGE! The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But…
The Earth War
In the 21st century the nature of war has change - Atomic weapons, Bazookas and rockets, were all banned. Machine guns were just permissable. An…
Dawnman Planet
Ron Bronston was sworn to protect the United Planets' dream - the pursuit of freedom and progress on all of the 3000 human-inhabited planets of…
Depression or Bust
Son," the president said. "What in the name of Moses is going on in this country?" Weigand, his pipe clenched tightly between his teeth, said…
Space Search
WAS VENU'S FATHER ADRIFT IN SPACE, CAPTIVE...OR DEAD? Life changed abruptly for 16-year-old Venu Jhabulova when his father disappeared. Venu had been heir to a…
Trample an Empire Down
UTOPIA WAS NO FUN They had a Guaranteed Annual Income and an automated world where no one had to work - but there was nothing…
The Best Ye Breed
ALEXANDER GHENGIS KHAN NAPOLEON Liberator of North Africa, charismatic conqueror of Islam, in reality he is Homer Crawford, "turncoat" black American sociologist who is determined…
The Cosmic Eye
Rex Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality, depending on which was needed. He should have…
The Fracas Factor
GUNS WERE ILLEGAL Unless you were a member of Category Military, no one on Earth could own a gun. So who was shooting at Joe…
Mercenary From Tomorrow
Is the story of 21st Century Earth - a world where work is forgotten, where the masses fight boredom with trank pills and telly, and…
Time Gladiator
IT SEEMED AS IF EVERYONE WAS A SPY! The political situation in the 21st century was coming to the boil: one man, a scientist, held…
Space Pioneer
New Arizona a lush, virgin planet teeming with rich vegetation and a vast hoard of mineral wealth. A company had been formed to colonise and…
Commune 2000 AD
It was the future perfect, the greatest society in human history, with peace and plenty, and total sexual freedom. Utopia paid you the Universal Guaranteed…
Police Patrol
Mack Reynolds has always been admired for his ability to portray the world of the future in its varied aspects - social, political, scientific and…
Day After Tomorrow
The time is the future. The government is a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy, mainly concerned with protecting the profits of large corporations. The Movement is…
Lagrange Five
The Wide syndrome It is the not-too-distant future. The space colony Lagrangia, on the moon's orbit, is an idyllic utopia of parks, mountains, streams and…
Computer World
Something is rotten in tomorrow's computer world¿ The time is in the not-too-distant future. Physical work is done by robot devices. Men and women are…
Galactic Medal of Honour
It was the highest and most coveted award of all time. It was given only to the bravest among those defending Earth from the mysterious…
Tomorrow Might Be Different
What would the world be like if the Russians discovered how to beat us at our own capitalistic game, and began dumping inexpensive, quality goods…
After Some Tomorrow
POWER! Perhaps the rarest gift in the world is that ability to read the future, to know what will happen to a person, a group,…
Computer War
The odds were right for victory. The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not -…
Perchance to Dream
It looked remarkably like a sterile, cold metallic coffin. It was the Intuitive Computer, a fantastic invention that would allow a user to assume the…
After Utopia
It is the far future. Earth is beautifully planned efficiently run and happily united. It is the world that dreamers have envisioned since the beginning…
Ability Quotient
When the Asian Wars were over Major Bert Alshuler had few prospects, until Mid-West University asked him to take part in an 'educational experiment' that…
Space Visitor
It is sometime I the near future. The nations of Earth have drawn closer together - there is even hope of a new era of…
Of Godlike Power
His words alone could change the world - completely and irrevocably. His words alone DID change the world. Was it mass hypnosis, a hex, or…
Section G: United Planets
Legally, the United Planets Organization could do nothing about the repressive, backward planetary governments of Falange, Stalin and Doria. It was imperative, however, that something…
The Five-Way Secret Agent
The world situation has become so confused that a young American living on Negative Income Tax finds himself drafted into an international espionage assignment by…
Satellite City
The most expensive, the most luxurious resort in the history of man. Where no request, no whim or pleasure, was denied. Where anything was possible…
Planetary Agent X
Newly accepted as a Special Agent of the star-spanning United Planets organization, Ronny Bronston found that his first assignment was one which had taken the…
The Rival Rigelians
The team from Earth had the task of raising backward planets to the home world's high level. The situation on Rigel was this: "The most…
Code Duello
Section G, the top-secret security unit of United Planets, had a special problem on their hands wit the situation on Firenze. And for that special…
Looking Backward From the Year 2000
They put him into a hypnotic trance in a sealed room to cure him. Then the house burnt down and he was forgotten. Until he…