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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? The Soviets? The Mafia? "Friends of the Earth?" Only time -- and blood -- will tell.

A father's love for his son goes zoom, swoosh, vroom, boom! This energetic, adventurous, action-packed lullaby for fathers and sons is perfect for Father's Day! The bond between a father and his son is as powerful as a rocket ship blasting into space, a giant whale splashing across the ocean, and booming, colorful fireworks lighting up the night sky. Celebrating that one-of-a-kind relationship between Dad and his favorite little guy, If My Lov...

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 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 w...

SATELLITE CITY: THE MOST EXPENSIVE, THE MOST LUXURIOUS, RESORT IN THE HISTORY OF MAN.Satellite City. Where no request, no whim or pleasure, was denied. Where anything was possible…for a price.It was the playground for the very rich and the very powerful. It was the most amazing pleasure complex ever built -- and it looked down on the Earth from an orbit 22, 000 miles high.Yet, for all its glitter, there was something ominous about Satellite Ci...

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. ROLLTOWN, LOOKING BACKWARD FROM THE YEAR 2000, and DAY AFTER TOMORROW are a few of his more popular and successful novels dealing with our future. Now, in this new book, Mack Reynolds presents his readers with an imaginative and action-packed look into the everyday life of a twenty-first cen...

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?

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.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. Th...

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 aliens existed somewhere in the depths of space -- the human-held worlds had to be ready to meet the challenge when it came. For this reason the secret corps, Section G, was formed. No government c...

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 before. It was almost always given posthumously.The bearer of this medal became the idol of all mankind, would never want for any necessity or luxury -- would never want for anything. Everyone on E...

A step in an odd direction -- a moment of dizziness -- and archeologist Dan Fielding was thrust through an invisible barrier four hundred years into the past. He was still in the Mexican desert, but it was the desert of the 16th century, and Mexico was in the grip of the conquistador Hernanao Cortez.Inevitably, Cortez captured Fielding -- and learned of the rich territory north of the Rio Grande. The land that would one day become the U.S. wou...

Lieutenant, how would you like to capture a Miro class cruiser?"Don laughed nervously. He said, "We've never captured a Kraden ship intact. -- A One Man Scout against a Miro class cruiser?"Demming grunted. "If we could arrange for you to capture such a vessel, there would be little doubt of you getting the Galactic Medal of Honor, Lieutenant."Don said, "Why? And why me, and what's your percentage?"Lieutenant Mathers, " Rostoff said patiently, ...

First on the scene were Larry Dermott and Tim Casey of the State Highway Patrol. They assumed they were witnessing the crash of a new type of Air Force plane and slipped and skidded desperately across the field to within thirty feet of the strange craft, only to discover that the landing had been made without accident.Patrolman Dermott shook his head. "They're gettin' queerer looking every year. Get a load of it -- no wheels, no propeller, no ...

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 hundred years ago the founders of scientific socialism, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, explained that the State was incompatible with liberty, that the State was an instrument of repression of one class by another. They...

His assignment was to get things done, he definitely did so. Not quite the things intended, perhaps, but definitely done. How do you run a command economy when nobody wants to take an order?

Lieutenant, how would you like to capture a Miro class cruiser?"Don laughed nervously. He said, "We've never captured a Kraden ship intact. -- A One Man Scout against a Miro class cruiser?"Demming grunted. "If we could arrange for you to capture such a vessel, there would be little doubt of you getting the Galactic Medal of Honor, Lieutenant."Don said, "Why? And why me, and what's your percentage?"Lieutenant Mathers, " Rostoff said patiently, ...

The Boss's reception secretary looked up when Lawrence Woolford entered the anteroom where she presided. "Hello, Larry, " she said. "Hear they called your vacation short. Darn shame."The boss apologized, too. "I am sorry to cut short your vacation, Lawrence. I considered giving Walter Foster the assignment, but I think you're the better choice."Larry decided the faint praise routine was the best tactic, said earnestly about his closest rival. ...

For some forty years critics of the U.S.S.R. have been desiring, predicting, not to mention praying for, its collapse, " says Mack Reynolds in this story's preface. "For twenty of these years the author of this story has vaguely wondered what would replace the collapsed Soviet system. A return to Czarism? Oh, come now! Capitalism as we know it today in the advanced Western countries?" Oh, if he'd only seen!, we find ourselves thinking. Still, ...

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."And he pressed the trigger.And at that moment, the universe caved inward upon Joseph Marie Prantera.There was nausea and nausea upon nausea.There was a falling through all space and through all time. There was do...

The Boss's reception secretary looked up when Lawrence Woolford entered the anteroom where she presided. "Hello, Larry, " she said. "Hear they called your vacation short. Darn shame."The boss apologized, too. "I am sorry to cut short your vacation, Lawrence. I considered giving Walter Foster the assignment, but I think you're the better choice."Larry decided the faint praise routine was the best tactic, said earnestly about his closest rival. ...

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 social systems including anarchy, communism, technocracy, syndicalism, meritocracy, various forms of socialism and an extrapolation of free-enterprise economics, People's Capitalism. In addition, som...