Mack Reynolds
Список книг автора Mack ReynoldsComputer World
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 language teacher, is rescued from a mysterious assault by a secret agent of the authorities who insists that only he, Kosloff, can prevent the International Data Center from being destroyed—and every living being's data wiped out. Kosloff goes forth…into a maelstrom of plot and counter-plot, murder, treason—and worse!
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 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 gradual establishment of a pioneer community, of farmlands and villages. The Colonists had given up everything by leaving Earth, and they wanted a new planet where they could work, prosper and establish a new and better way of life. They were determined to thwart the directors by any means they could find. And after landing on New Arizona, someone smashes the radio and sabotages the life-craft.<P> Now the balance is more even—but when a real crisis erupts it seems as if neither side will be alive to win!
Depression or Bust
A biting but insightful satire on the political chaos following the economic collapse that sweeps the United States of the future.
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 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 even realizing it. Of course he still thought he was being loyal to Alphaland, because he thought that one and one must logically add up to two.<P> And that kind of thinking could make him the biggest traitor of them all.
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 hard to forget.
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!
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.
The Case of the Little Green Men
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!
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: <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 millions before. No Caesar ever exerted the power that will be in your collective hands. For half a century, you will be as gods and goddesses!" <P> But the Rigelians were themselves descended from the lost colonists of old Earth and they could learn their lessons as fast as they could be taught. In fact, they could even teach their teachers a thing or two. And therein lay the peril the professors from space never dreamed of.
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 life of a twenty-first century policeman.