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Book Synopsis The Fracas Factor by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book The Fracas Factor written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 were after him now—his own, or Cogswell's? In a world where the computers kept track of you, Mauser had to disappear...and stay alive long enough to reach the Field Marshal!
Download or read book Paradox Gained written by Mack Reynolds and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 deep. And by no stretch of the imagination could it have held three full-grown men. Not as full-grown as these were. Besides that, the closet was already chock full of clothes, half a dozen pair of shoes and two suitcases. It happened about seven-thirty. Ben Farlan had finished an unsatisfactory day at the laboratory, had his dinner at the automat, and picked up a fifth of brandy on the way home. Little Ben Farlan liked brandy. He liked to sit at night in his hundred-and-fifty-dollar chair and read something not too technical, but not too light, and have a snifter glass of brandy on the coffee table next to him. On nights when he had nothing on his mind he could sit for hours that way, get through a whole book and possibly a third of his bottle before it was time for bed. This wasn't one of the nights when he had nothing on his mind. Things were getting on the chaotic side at the lab. Already he had enough work on his shoulders for three men, and now the Army was taking young Robertson. Now it was Robertson! They let a man take eight long years of schooling, eight years of work to become a scientist, preparatory to assuming a useful place in society- and then what happens? They slap him into the Infantry for what would probably be an indefinite period, the world situation being what it was. Ben had gone through three ounces of brandy and was pouring himself another glass. That was when the closet door opened and a six-footer who must have weighed at least two hundred and twenty pounds stepped into the room. He was wearing a uniform that wouldn't have been out of place on a Guatemalan Rear Admiral and he didn't look particularly friendly. Not half an hour earlier, Ben Farlan had hung his coat in that closet, and since then he hadn't left the room. He blinked reproachfully through his thick lenses at his brandy glass. The newcomer took him in with one sweep of his eyes, then strode quickly to the bedroom, opened its door, and gave a quick look around inside. "Hey!" Ben protested. Another six-footer, cut in the same 'model as the first, stepped from the closet. This was really out of the question. You couldn't have got the two of them in there with a shoehorn. But that didn't prevent a third one from pressing after the second. While the third brute was giving the room the onceover, the second headed for the bathroom and gave it a quick glance. They evidently wanted to be sure Ben Farlan was alone. The first had meantime checked the tiny kitchenette. Ben Farlan let loose with another weak, "Hey!"
Book Synopsis Equality: In the Year 2000 by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Equality: In the Year 2000 written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? He was a man of the past, totally unable to adapt to the unbelievable social, political and cultural changes; totally unable to assimilate the explosive advances in all branches of knowledge. Julian West was a child, lost among the wonders of the Twenty-First Century
Download or read book Space Visitor written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams of lasting peace are shattered by one momentous discovery. One of the members of an international team of scientists stationed on the moon has found an alien spacecraft – with all its incredible technology and weaponry intact. The discovery shatters the illusion of peace on Earth, as each nation joins the mad scramble to learn the terrible secrets entombed by alien visitors eons before. Only one thing prevents total war – Werner Brecht, the discoverer of the vehicle, is the only one who knows its location and he has disappeared into thin air.
Download or read book Commune 2000 AD written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 worm of discontent. Strange, because Swain himself felt gnawed by corruption, distracted by lust, troubled by danger...
Download or read book Dawnman Planet written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was called upon for some very unusual missions. But the present crisis was without precedent. Man's sovereignty in his galaxy was challenged by a single madman and the super-weapons of the Dawnmen, the mysterious aliens from the unexplored vastness of the galaxy's center. Bronston, alone, had to find a way to stop them.
Book Synopsis Police Patrol: 2000 A.D. by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Police Patrol: 2000 A.D. written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Time Gladiator written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-world, and Common Europe. The scientist, Auguste Bazaine, disappears, and each bloc accuses the other of kidnapping. There was only one way to settle the difference! So nine men were chosen to fight to the death in a trial by combat organised by the World Court. The winner will put his country on top. But when an American and a Russian meet face to face—the result is not what was expected!
Book Synopsis Day After Tomorrow by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Day After Tomorrow written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a just and scientifically efficient socioeconomic system. The Movement was staffed by some of the world's greatest intellectuals and scientists; unfortunately, they were amateurs in the business of revolution. The government could call on an army of ruthless professional agents - and they had no scruples about using violence.
Download or read book The Earth War written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st Century the face of war had changed. Atomic weapons -- out! Bazookas and rockets—nyet! Machine guns—maybe. The newest secret weapon—gliders! East and West had managed an uneasy truce in the arms race by banning ail weapons developed before 1900—and restricting wars to local disputes between corporations or companies and unions. It was a crazy way of doing things, but it worked—until an ambitious Major upset the apple cart, and threw the world's peace into deadly peril! In this exciting picture of the next century, veteran science-fiction writer MACK REYNOLDS combines mastery of a unique setting with a fast-action story of combat and intrigue.
Download or read book Rolltown written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 "towns" composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.
Download or read book The Cosmic Eye written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris should have functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, evey word, every action was controlled by the superstate. A state where everyone was watched night and day by the Great Eye of the internal security forces, It was a strange, in many ways inhuman world, but the rewards were great for those who belonged to the right caste. Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality depending on which was needed. Morris was born right at the top -- he had everything the Technate Society could provide -- and yet he didn't belong. Nonconformity could mean liquidation, but he was prepared to take the risk.
Book Synopsis The Space Barbarians by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book The Space Barbarians written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 things had to be. Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann's elders. Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit. Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson!
Book Synopsis Planetary Agent X by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Planetary Agent X written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 been trying to catch him for twenty years,' said Ronny's section chief. 'How long before that he was active, we have no way of knowing. It was some time before we became aware that half the revolts, coups d'états and assassinations that occur in the United Planets have his dirty finger stirring around in them.' 'But what motivates him?' Ronny asked. 'What's he get out of all the war and killing he stirs up?' 'Nobody seems to know. But the best guess is that he's insane - a homicidal maniac on an intergalactic scale. He's dangerous, Ronny, and you've got to get him!'
Book Synopsis Mercenary from Tomorrow by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Mercenary from Tomorrow written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western society is split up into nine castes, from Lower-Lower to Mid-Lower all the way up to the privileged Upper-Upper. Mauser himself was born a Mid-Lower. Ambitious, he had chosen one of the few professions, Category Military, where upward mobility was still a reasonable possibility. To prevent any chance of a ruinous war between the West and the Sov-world, the Universal Disarmament Pact had restricted all militaries to pre-1900 technology. Gradually, powerful corporations began settling business disputes by hiring troops to fight real battles (fracases) on one of many military reservations. This served a dual purpose: to maintain a military well-honed by actual combat and to provide the decadent general population with a diversion. The life-and-death struggles are so popular that they are televised. Mauser had worked his way up to captain and Middle-Middle status after many years of effort. When upstart Vacuum Tube Transport finds itself forced into an expensive, division-sized fracas with Continental Hovercraft, he sees his opportunity. He signs up with the underdog, even though the much wealthier Continental is able to hire the best soldiers available, including Marshal "Stonewall" Cogswell, the finest commander in the business. Mauser tells Baron Haer, the head of Vacuum Tube, that he can engineer an improbable victory with a gimmick he has been working on for a long time; in return, he expects the baron's support which, in conjunction with his anticipated popularity with fracas fans, should be enough to get him promoted into the Upper caste. The baron's son, Bart, scoffs at the undisclosed idea, but the baron is desperate for experienced officers and hires him.
Download or read book Computer War written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. And that kind of thinking could make him the biggest traitor of them all.
Book Synopsis Black Man's Burden by : Mack Reynolds
Download or read book Black Man's Burden written by Mack Reynolds and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turmoil in Africa is only beginning-and it must grow worse before it's better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans-not warring tribesmen-will there be peace...
