Mack Reynolds

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  • Bibliography:
    85 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1962
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Star Trek

Mission to Horatius (1999)

Book List in Order: 85 titles

  • Subversive

    Subversive is, in essence, a negative term--it means simply against the existent system. It doesn't mean subversives all agree ... Reprinted from the September, 1962 issue of ANALOG, edited by the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr....

  • The Common Man

    "It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!Dallas McCord ""Mac...

  • Coup

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Warrior
    • / Science Fiction
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    WARRIOR! spans the length and depths of interstellar space, breaching the farthest reaches of infinity. From the deepest heart of the starkest black hole to the dazzling chaos of starry inception man endlessly replays the tireless scenarios of war. F...

  • Black Sheep Astray

    in Astounding
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Ability Quotient

    • / Science Fiction
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    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 would test the effect of certain drugs on his I.Q. The project was top secret, but it looked ...

  • Space Visitor

    It is sometime in the near future.... The nations of Earth have drawn closer together -- there is even hope that a new era of co-operation and progress will soon begin. These dreams of lasting peace are shattered by one momentous discovery. One of...

  • Galactic Medal of Honor

    THE GALACTIC MEDAL OF HONOR was the most important, the most coveted award of all time. It was given only to a handful of the bravest and most self-sacrificing of those defending Earth from the mysterious alien invaders that had appeared fifty years...

  • 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 Dorn Horsten would have to do is visit the planet Einstein and see if there was any reason not to admit them to United...

  • Lagrange Five

    Rex Bader is a private investigator from earth who is called to Island Three at the LaGrange Point to solve the mystery of the missing professor and father of the entire LaGrange Point project. At the same time as the investigation, the cases of Wide...



  • Optical Illusion

    in Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II

    An ultimate scary tale collection for readers with monsters on the brain celebrates the creepy beasties of the forest, swamp, school bus, and vending machines, and highlights creatures that may even turn out to be a best friend. Original....

  • Home Sweet Home 2010 A.D.

  • Eternity

  • Space Search

  • Other Time

    A step in an odd direction -- a moment of dizziness - and archaeologist Dan Fielding was thrust through an invisible barrier found hundred years into the past. He was still in the Mexican desert -- but it was the desert of the 16th century, and Mexic...

  • The Lagrangists

    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...

  • Deathwish World

    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 ...

  • Joe Mauser Mercenary from Tomorrow

    In a future society in which the Corporate Wars--battles between mercenary armies hired by large corporations--are entertainment for the masses, Joe Mauser, a mercenary, defies the tenets of society to achieve his ultimate goal...

  • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes

  • Chaos in Lagrangia

    Rex Bader has finally solved the mystery of who is trying to kill the Director of the first L-5 space colony. The Mafia? The KGB? Anti-Space fanatics? Answer: all three. The question now is can Rex continue to protect the Director against his man...



  • Mission to Horatius

    • / Space Opera
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    Star Trek

    Captain Kirk investigates a planet whose inhabitants are split into two kinds: real people and clones with no civil rights. Out of print for over 30 years, the first Star Trek novel is back--in an exact, authentic facsimile of the original 1967 editi...

  • Adaptation

    When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom" ... and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorance" but "folly."...

  • 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 children who had swarmed from the tents to greet them were falling silent. Here and there a hand pointed upw...

  • Revolution

    Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds' work is noteworthy for its focus on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking explorations of Utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric, perspective. He was a considerably popular author...

  • Medal of Honor

    According to tradition, the man who held the Galactic Medal of Honor could do no wrong. In a strange way, Captain Don Mathers was to learn that this was true....

  • Case of the Little Green Men

    Mack Reynolds skilfully blends elements of pop sci-fi culture, mystery and the detective genre in his 1951 mystery....

  • Slow Djinn

    Jake O'Gara is quickly losing his movie writer touch, what with all the alcohol in his brain. But his big break finally comes in the form of a djinn. Or so he thinks …First published in Space Science Fiction Magazine, August 1957...

  • Black Man's Burden

    Black Man''s Burden is a science-fiction novella and the first in a series of near-future stories set in North Africa. The series has been called a notable exception to the indirect treatment of racial issues in 1960s science fiction.In Black Man''s...

  • I.Q.

    In a time when teaching machines and batteries of educational tests seem to be determining the intellectual nobility of the next generation, this story has meaning for all of us.ExcerptOn the way over to the Administration offices Professor Roy Thoma...

  • Paradox Gained

    DON'T TRY TO FIGURE A FINAL ANSWER TO THIS ONE. PHILOSOPHERS HAVE TRIED FOR AGES ... AND HAVE FAILED! Excerpt The closet in Benjamin Farlan's two-room bachelor apartment wasn't particularly large. In fact, it measured three feet wide by four feet dee...



  • 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, even a country, and when it will happen! EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION The year is some indeterminate time in the future; Mick...

  • 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 of time - no slums, no crime, no poverty, no disease, no shortages. But still, it is a world with...

  • Code Duello

    United Planets' spy team included a man who could never lose a bet -- but this time the odds were astronomical!...

  • 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 Income, whether you worked or not. Yet something was wrong it was a fractured Utopia. By the t...

  • 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 - or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing -- nothing that the Alphaland computers sai...

  • 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 endowed at birth with a sum of credit called Inalienable Basic. Everyone operates with a Universal ...

  • 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 functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, word, and act...

  • 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 a new and non-violent revolutionary group seeking to replace the political mess with ...

  • 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 no less than 5 opposing interests. It is a story of humour and adventure that will be h...

  • 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 Mauser? And why? He'd been a mercenary, but he'd been thrown out when he saved Field Marshal Cogswell's life. Whose enemies...



  • 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 Kradens. Many had sacrificed their lives for it. The current bearer of the medal became the idol of all mankind - ...

  • 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 awoke forty years later and could not - dared not - believe what he saw . . ....

  • 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 where it is almost impossible to leave the social class you were born in. You could break the class barrier only by h...

  • Of Godlike Power

  • 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 identity of any historical figure - Napoleon, Cleopatra, Hitler - anyone who ever existed. The posse...

  • 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 lives of dozens of agents before him: he was to track down a man named Tommy Paine. 'We've...

  • 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 economic. Now, he presents his readers with an imaginative and action-packed look into the everyday li...

  • 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 advanced culture on Rigel's first planet is to be compared to the Italian cities during Europe's feudalistic yeas...

  • 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 - for a price. SATELLITE CITY The haven and the playground of only the very rich and the most powerf...

  • Section G

    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 be done. The UP had proof that a race of highly advanced, warlike ...



  • 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 exploit it, and the spaceship Titov set out with the Board of Directors and two thousand colonists. And short...

  • 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 what might be the important key to ultimate power in the struggle between the three blocs: West-world, Sov-wor...

  • 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 on the world market? In this brand new novel, Mack Reynolds deposits us into just such a future. It is ...

  • Episode on the Riviera

    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 ... an...

  • The Jet Set

    Larry Land started his European trek with the idea of seeing as much of the continent and its way of life as he could in a year. To pay his way, he photographed celebrities.That’s how he met the notorious Countessa di Loraine - or Marcy, to her int...

  • A Kiss Before Loving

    Here is a saucy, realistic ovel of a group of pleasure-seeking expatriates living it up in the Paris that few tourists see . . .Shelley Halliday, who made a living showing the seamy side of Parisian night life to Americans . . .Felicity Patterson, tw...

  • This Time We Love

    There were things about Rome that Max Fielding would always remember: the titles ladies who acted like tramps, the tramps who acted like ladies, and the movie starlets intent on parlaying a big chest and a small talent in stardom.He could never forge...

  • 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 the galaxy. As an operative of the secret section of the United Planets' Bureau of Investigation, Bronston...

  • Depression or Bust

    A biting but insightful satire on the political chaos following the economic collapse that sweeps the United States of the future....

  • 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 the newest secret weapon? - A GLIDER East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms' race by banni...

  • Rolltown

    In Rolltown, Mack Reynolds turns his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile "...

  • The Towers of Utopia

    The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But it leaves a wake of profitless crime and motiveless murder...and puts the future of mankind's paradise-on-earth in peri...

  • 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 to do! When Morris and his friends ran out of beer, there was only one alternative - they decided to overthrow the governmen...

  • 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 fearsome military caste - made up exclusively of women. The males of Amazonia usually wound up in some warrio...

  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V12, the Pulp Writers - Mack Renolds

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 is a collection of fourteen Mack Reynolds sci-fi stories. Included are: POTENTIAL ENEMY, DOGFIGHT-1973, OFF COURSE, HAPPY ENDING, UNBORN TOMORROW, SUMMIT, REVOLUTION, COMBAT, MEDAL OF HONOR, I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, GUN...

  • Mercenary

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • 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 awoke forty years later. It was the year 2000, and it seemed like Utopia. But would it be Utopia for Julian West?...

  • 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 on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way th...

  • Summit

    Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, Necessary....

  • The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack

    The Second Mack Reynolds MEGAPACK® assembles a stellar collection of rare and classic works by a science fiction master! Here are 21 tales spanning space and time by the author of the Joe Mauser series and the Legrange series. Included are:COME IN, ...

  • Combat

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Dogfight-1973

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Kept Woman

  • Police Patrol: 2000 A.D.

    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 lif...

  • Girl Friend

    14-year-old Alice King was a typical junior high girl -- until her prostitute mother got her into the business. After the police arrest Alice, her tragic story unfolds....

  • Tale from Tangier

    A classic crime tale by best-selling science fiction author Mack Reynolds, ripped from the pages of the March, 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine!...

  • Best Ye Breed

    • / General Fiction
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    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 to lead the Dark Continent into the modern age by whatever means are ne...

  • Expediter

    • / Science Fiction
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    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Freedom

    • / Science Fiction
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    There was a sheet of paper on the seat of his aircushion car. He frowned at it. It couldn't have been there before. He picked it up.

    It was a mimeographed throw-away.

    It was entitled, Freedom, and it began: Comrades, more than a hundre...

  • Frigid Fracas

    • / Science Fiction
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    Reynolds sought to shake his readers' complacent acceptance of Cold War capitalism by depicting a variety of post-capitalist near futures, many of which he envisioned could occur around the year 2000. His stories, therefore, cover an assortment of...

  • Gun For Hire

    • / Science Fiction
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    The evening was dark, it was unlikely that the other even saw the circle of steel that was the mouth of the shotgun barrel, now resting on the car's window ledge.

    "Who's it?" he growled.

    Joe Prantera said softly, "Big Louis sent me, Al."

    ...

  • I'M A Stranger Here Myself

    • / Science Fiction
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    Tangier is possibly the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In native costume you'll see Berber and Rif, Arab and Blue Man, and occasionally a Senegalese from further south. In European dress you'll see Japs and Chinese, Hindus and Turks, Levanti...

  • Off Course

    • / Science Fiction
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    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Rival Rigelians Agent X

    • / General Fiction
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  • Status Quo

    • / Science Fiction
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    In his income bracket and in the suburb in which he lived, government employees in the twenty-five to thirty-five age group were currently wearing tweeds. Tweeds were in. Not to wear tweeds was Non-U. Lawrence Woolford wore tweeds. His suit, this mor...

  • Ultima Thule

    • / Science Fiction
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    Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete ...

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Mack Reynolds has published 85 books.

Mack Reynolds does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Girl Friend, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Mack Reynolds, Subversive, was published in September 1962.

No. Mack Reynolds does not write books in series.
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