Mack Reynolds

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Reynolds' Mission to Horatius (1968), the first original novel based on the television show Star Trek

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (November 11, 1917 - January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine. He was an active supporter of the Socialist Labor Party and consequently many of his stories have a reformist theme, and almost all of his novels explore economic issues to some degree. He was quite popular in the 1960s but most of his work subsequently went out of print.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Mack Reynolds was born in Corcoran, California. Early in his life, Reynolds worked in the newspaper and shipbuilding business. He served in the Marine Corps during WWII. After WWII, Reynolds became a professional mystery writer. He married Helen Jeanette Wooley in September 1947. Two years later, the family moved to Taos, New Mexico, where Fredric Brown, his frequent collaborator, convinced Reynolds to try his hand at writing science fiction, which resulted in a sale of 17 stories in 1950 alone. Reynolds' home was primarily in Mexico from the early 1950s to his death in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In the 1950s he worked as the travel editor for Rogue magazine and traveled all over the world.

Most of Reynolds' stories took place in Utopian societies, many of which fulfilled L. L. Zamenhof's dream of Esperanto used worldwide as a universal second language. His novels predicted many things which have come to pass, including pocket computers and a world-wide computer network with information available at one's fingertips.

Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek. The book, Mission to Horatius (1968), was aimed at young readers.

Reynolds' pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, and Dallas Ross. In 1972, he used the name Maxine Reynolds on two romantic suspense novels, House in the Kasbah and Home of the Inquisitor.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

The Case of the Little Green Men, 1951
Mercenary from Tomorrow, 1962 (first book of the "Joe Mauser" series)
The Earth War, 1963 (second book of the "Joe Mauser" series)
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes; also known as Time Gladiator, 1964 (third book of the "Joe Mauser" series)
Space Pioneer, 1965
Planetary Agent X, 1965 (first book of the "United Planets" series)
Dawnman Planet, 1966 (second book of the "United Planets" series)
Of Godlike Power, 1966
The Rival Rigelians and Planetary Agent X, 1967 (third book of the "United Planets" series)
After Some Tomorrow, 1967
Earth Unaware, 1968
Code Duello, 1968 (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 (first book of the "North Africa" series)
Border, Breed, Nor Birth, 1972 (second book of the "North Africa" series)
Looking Backward from the Year 2000, 1973 (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 a reprint of the second "United Planets - Section G" book)
Commune 2000 A.D., 1974 (first book of the "Bat Hardin" series)
The Towers of Utopia, 1975 (second book of the "Bat Hardin" series)
Satellite City, 1975
Amazon Planet, 1975 (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 (sixth book of the "United Planets" series)
Rolltown, 1976 (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 (second book of the "Julian West" series)
Trample an Empire Down, 1978
The Best Ye Breed, 1978 (third book of the "North Africa" series)
Brain World, 1978 (seventh book of the "United Planets" series)
The Fracas Factor, 1978 (fourth book of the "Joe Mauser" series)
Earth Unaware, 1979
Lagrange Five, 1979 (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)

[edit] Collections

The Best of Mack Reynolds, 1976
Compounded Interests, 1983

[edit] Series contributed to

Star Trek - Mission to Horatius, 1968

[edit] Anthologies edited

Science-Fiction Carnival, 1953 (with Fredric Brown)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
The Hunted Ones, 1959
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)

[edit] Books and academic articles about Mack Reynolds

Curtis C. Smith, Roger C. Schlobin. Welcome to the Revolution: The Literary Legacy of Mack Reynolds. Borgo Press, Milford Series. Popular Writers of Today, Vol 64. 1995 ISBN 1-55742-236-2

Matthew Kapell, "Mack Reynolds' Avoidance of his own Eighteenth Brumaire: A Note of Caution for Would-Be Utopians." Extrapolation, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer): 201-208. (Examines Reynolds' "utopian" thought in his rewriting of Edward Bellamy's 19th century book Looking Backward.)