Mack Reynolds
49 кн.
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 Income, whether you worked or not. Yet something was wrong it was a fractured Utopia.<P> By the thousands, the disenchanted fled the cities to join tiny, mobile towns that sprang up wildly. It was called The Commune Phenomenon. Super leaders of the super future challenged Swain to locate the worm of discontent. Strange, because Swain...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
His unearthly power could destroy the world—was there no one to stop him? His words alone could change the world—completely and irrevocably. His words alone DID change the world. Was it mass hypnosis, a hex, or THE POWER? A classic of science fiction by the author voted most popular by the readers of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
The year is 1969. An American expat writer living in Spain encounters a beautiful woman with more on her mind than romance. Her mad schemes involve the resurrection of the Third Reich, Adolph Hitler, and zombies! This classic sci-fi suspense tale originally appeared in 1970, by the writer votes most popular by the readers of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.
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Mack Reynolds has always been admired for his ability to portray the world of the future in its varied aspects – social, political, scientific and economic. Now, he presents his readers with an imaginative and action-packed look into the everyday life of a twenty-first century policeman.
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A biting but insightful satire on the political chaos following the economic collapse that sweeps the United States of the future.
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Mack Reynolds skillfully blends elements of pop sci-fi culture, mystery and the detective genre in his 1951 mystery, as a detective encounters organized science fiction fandom. Anyone up on science fiction author of the 1950s will recognize a lot of names!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Dreams of lasting peace are shattered by one momentous discovery. One of the members of an international team of scientists stationed on the moon has found an alien spacecraft – with all its incredible technology and weaponry intact. The discovery shatters the illusion of peace on Earth, as each nation joins the mad scramble to learn the terrible secrets entombed by alien visitors eons before. <P>Only one thing prevents total war – Werner Brecht, the discoverer of the vehicle, is the only...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
The political situation in the 21st century was coming to the boil: one man, a scientist, held what might be the important key to ultimate power in the struggle between the three blocs: West-world, Sov-world, and Common Europe. The scientist, Auguste Bazaine, disappears, and each bloc accuses the other of kidnapping. There was only one way to settle the difference! So nine men were chosen to fight to the death in a trial by combat organised by the World Court. The winner will put his country on...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Morris should have functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, evey word, every action was controlled by the superstate. A state where everyone was watched night and day by the Great Eye of the internal security forces, <P> It was a strange, in many ways inhuman world, but the rewards were great for those who belonged to the right caste. <P> Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Steven Cogswell was being hunted on the Riviera. Between crooks and party girls, things are getting tough. Add his ex wife … and beautiful Nadine (who may not be as innocent as she pretends) … and Nadine's brute of an ex fiance, Gerald … and you have a recipe for disaster!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
The team from Earth had the task of raising backward planets to the home world's high level. The situation on Rigel was this: <P> "The most advanced culture on Rigel's first planet is to be compared to the Italian cities during Europe's feudalistic yeas. The most advanced of the second planet is comparable to the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest." <P> "These planets are in your control to the extent that no small group has ever dominated...
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The odds were right for victory. The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not – or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing—nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would.<P> Those treacherous foemen were avoiding logic and using such unheard-of devices as surprise and sabotage, treason and trickery. They even had Alphaland's Deputy of Information believing Betastani propaganda without...
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United Planets' spy team included a man who could never lose a bet – but this time the odds were astronomical!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
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 no less than 5 opposing interests. It is a story of humour and adventure that will be hard to forget.
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
L-5, a point in the Earth-Moon System where orbits are forever and the new age of Freedom and Plenty can begin. Now, they're trying to kill the man in charge of the first L-5 colony, and Private Eye Rex Bader is the man who will have to find and stop them. But who are the killers? Only time – and blood – will tell!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Western society is split up into nine castes, from Lower-Lower to Mid-Lower all the way up to the privileged Upper-Upper. Mauser himself was born a Mid-Lower. Ambitious, he had chosen one of the few professions, Category Military, where upward mobility was still a reasonable possibility. <P> To prevent any chance of a ruinous war between the West and the Sov-world, the Universal Disarmament Pact had restricted all militaries to pre-1900 technology. Gradually, powerful corporations began...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
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 exploit it, and the spaceship Titov set out with the Board of Directors and two thousand colonists. And shortly after the trip had begun, the trouble started.<P> The Board of Directors was only interested in the vast profits that could be made by stripping the planet of its natural resources which could be sold to the highest bidder. Not for them the...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Something is rotten in tomorrow's computer world. The time: the not-too-distant future. Physical work is done by robot devices. Men and women are endowed at birth with a sum of credit called Inalienable Basic. Everyone operates with a Universal Credit Card—which is also identification, police record, medical record, and many other things. Every detail of life in the United States of the Americas is stored in the International Data Center, located in Denver. <P> Paul Kosloff, a...
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In the 21st Century the face of war had changed. Atomic weapons – out! Bazookas and rockets—nyet! Machine guns—maybe. The newest secret weapon—gliders! East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms race by banning ail weapons developed before 1900—and restricting wars to local disputes between corporations or companies and unions. It was a crazy way of doing things, but it worked—until an ambitious Major upset the apple cart, and threw the world's peace into deadly peril! <P>...
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It's a crooked road to world peace…but it works. Warfare between nations has been banned. Taking its place are the Corporate Wars – full-scale battles between mercenary armies hired by large corporations, ostensibly to settle trade disputes.<P> But the wars are also free entertainment for the masses. In a world where most jobs have been taken over by automation, free tranquilizers have to be issued to the vast lower class to keep them subdued. The Corporate Wars offer what little...
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Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space – or something even more sinister? <P> When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter's first discovery is...
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Life under a Deathwish policy was fun while it lasted, but for Deathwisher Roy Cox it was far more than that. For him, gaining access to great wealth in exchange for becoming a target for hired killers was a political act: you can buy a lot of media attention with a million pseudobucks, and Roy had a cause worth dying for. <P> Already Roy has survived twice the term of the average Deathwisher, and people are getting interested in what he has to say. That why Worldgov has labeled him a...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |