Mack Reynolds
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Mack Reynolds (Dallas McCord Reynolds) (November 11, 1917 - January 30, 1983) was an American pulp science fiction magazine author. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine. He was an organizer for the Socialist Labor Party and consequently many of his stories have a reformist theme, and almost all his novels explore economic issues to some degree. He was quite popular in the 1960s but most of his work is out of print today.
Mack Reynolds was born in Corcoran, California in 1917. His home was primarily in Mexico from the early 1950s to his death in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1983.
Most of his stories took place in Utopian Societies, many of which fulfilled L.L. Zamenhof's dream of Esperanto used world-wide as a universal second language. His novels predicted many things which have come, pocket computers, world-wide networks with information available at fingertips.
Reynolds has the distinction of being the first author to write an original novel based upon Star Trek. Mission to Horatius, aimed at young readers, appeared in 1968.
His pen names included: Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, and Dallas Ross.
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Novels
- The Case of the Little Green Men, 1951
- Mercenary from Tomorrow, 1962 (the first book of the 'Joe Mauser' series)
- The Earth War, 1963 (the second book of the 'Joe Mauser' series)
- Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes; aka Time Gladiator, 1964 (the third book of the 'Joe Mauser' series)
- Space Pioneer, 1965
- Planetary Agent X, 1965 (the first book of the 'United Planets' series)
- Dawnman Planet, 1966 (the second book of the 'United Planets' series)
- Of Godlike Power, 1966
- The Rival Rigelians and Planetary Agent X, 1967 (the third book of the 'United Planets' series)
- After Some Tomorrow, 1967
- Earth Unaware, 1968
- Code Duello, 1968 (the fourth book of the 'United Planets' series)
- The Cosmic Eye, 1969
- Computer War, 1969
- The Space Barbarians, 1969
- The Five Way Secret Agent, 1969
- Computer World, 1970
- Once Departed, 1970
- Black Man's Burden, 1972 (the first book of the 'North Africa' series)
- Border, Breed, Nor Birth, 1972 (the second book of the 'North Africa' series)
- Looking Backward from the Year 2000, 1973 (the first book of the 'Julian West' series).
- Depression or Bust and Dawnman Planet, 1974 (Parts were published previously titled "Depression. . .or Bust, "Expediter", and "Fad" in Analog magazine and titled "The Expert" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.)('Dawnman Planet' is also in the 'United Planets' series and probably should be listed as the fifth book in the series)
- Commune 2000 A.D., 1974 (the first book of the 'Bat Hardin' series)
- The Towers of Utopia, 1975 (the second book of the 'Bat Hardin' series)
- Satellite City, 1975
- Amazon Planet, 1975 (the fifth book of the 'United Planets' series)
- The Cosmic Eye, 1975
- Towers of Utopia, 1975
- Ability Quotient, 1975
- Tomorrow Might Be Different, 1975
- Day After Tomorrow, 1976 (originally in Analog titled: "Status Quo")
- Section G: United Planets, 1976 (the sixth book of the 'United Planets' series)
- Rolltown, 1976 (the third book of the 'Bat Hardin' series)
- Galactic Medal of Honour, 1976
- After Utopia, 1977
- Perchance to Dream, 1977
- Space Visitor, 1977
- Police Patrol: 2000 A.D., 1977
- Equality in the Year 2000, 1977 (the second book of the 'Julian West' series)
- Trample an Empire Down, 1978
- The Best Ye Breed, 1978 (the third book of the 'North Africa' series)
- Brain World, 1978 (the seventh book of the 'United Planets' series)
- The Fracas Factor, 1978 (the fourth book of the Joe Mauser series)
- Earth Unaware, 1979
- Lagrange Five, 1979 (the first book of the 'L-5 Community' series)
- The Lagrangists, 1983 (the second book of the 'L-5 Community' series)
- Chaos in Lagrangia, 1984 (the third book of the 'L-5 Community' series)
- Eternity (1984) (with Dean Ing)
- Home, Sweet Home 2010 A. D., 1984 (with Dean Ing)
- The Other Time, 1984 (with Dean Ing)
- Space Search, 1984
- Trojan Orbit, 1985 (with Dean Ing)
- Deathwish World, 1986 (with Dean Ing)
Collections
- The Best of Mack Reynolds, 1976
- Compounded Interests, 1983
Series contributed to
- Star Trek - Mission to Horatius, 1968
Anthologies edited
- Science-Fiction Carnival, 1953 (with Fredric Brown)
Anthologies containing stories by Mack Reynolds
- New Worlds for Old, 1953
- Science-Fiction Carnival, 1953
- Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, 1963
- Venture Science Fiction 9, 1964
- The Unfriendly Future, 1965
- The Weird Ones, 1965
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 190, 1967
- The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural, 1967
- Science Fiction Horizons No. 1, 1968
- 14 Great Tales of ESP, 1969
- The Year's Best Science Fiction 2, 1969
- The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology, 1973
- Nova 3, 1973
- Science Fiction of the Fifties, 1979
- 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, 1984
- Mercenaries of Tomorrow, 1985
- Terrorists of Tomorrow, 1985
- Supernatural Sleuths, 1996
- Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written, 1997
- Future War, 1999
Short stories
- The Martians and the Coys, 1948
- The Devil Finds Work, 1950
- Dark Interlude, 1951 (with Fredric Brown)
- The Joke Cartoonist, 1951 (with Fredric Brown) aka Garrigan's BEMs
- The Business, as Usual, 1952
- Me and Flapjack and the Martians, 1952 (with Fredric Brown)
- Your Soul Comes C.O.D., 1952
- The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus, 1955 (with August Derleth)
- Burnt Toast, 1955
- Snafu on the New Taos, 1957
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1960
- Russkies Go Home!, 1960
- Freedom, 1961
- Status Quo, 1961 - Hugo (nominee)
- Earthlings Go Home, 1962
- Mercenary, 1962
- Subversive, 1962
- Pacifist, 1964
- The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial, 1965 - Nebula (nominee)
- A Leader for Yesterday, 1965 - Nebula (nominee)
- Relic, 1967
- Criminal in Utopia, 1968
- Black Sheep Astray, 1973
- The Cold War...Continued, 1973
- Hell's Fire, 1980 (with Gary Jennings)
- The Hunted Ones