Dallas McCord Reynolds, connu sous le nom de Mack Reynolds, était un auteur américain de science-fiction dont les œuvres exploraient souvent des thèmes économiques et des utopies sociales. Ses histoires, profondément influencées par ses convictions politiques socialistes, dépeignaient fréquemment des sociétés où l'espéranto servait de langue seconde universelle et anticipaient des technologies telles que les ordinateurs de poche et les réseaux d'information mondiaux. Le style de Reynolds capturait de manière unique la nature en constante évolution de la société, se penchant souvent sur les implications d'un mode de vie très mobile, telles que les lois sur le vote mobile permettant aux citoyens d'exprimer leur vote où et quand ils le souhaitaient.
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, Reynolds has seen something, and he has a lot to say about it. See for yourself
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-sacraficing 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 Earth sought that medal....One man was going to cheat to win it -- and live to regret it. (Above text appears on the back cover)
Rex Bader has finally solved the mystery of who is trying to kill the Director of the first L-5 space colony. The Mafia? The KGB? Anti-Space fanatics? all three. The question now is can Rex continue to protect the Director against his many enemies. If he can't the history of man in space may be short indeed.
It is the far future. Earth is a beautifully planned, efficiently run and happily united. But still it is a world with problems- people have become so lazy, so self-satisfied, that human progress has all but ceased. Addicts of the newly-developed "programmed dreams" are increasing at an enormous rate. Only a few individuals realize that the human race is destroying itself. This book is about what those few people do.
They put him into a hypnotic trance in a sealed room to cure him. Then the house burnt down and he was forgotten....Until he awoke forty years later and could not-dared not-believe what he saw.
Set against a backdrop of social and political challenges, this short novel explores themes of race and identity. Originally serialized in ANALOG magazine, it delves into the burdens faced by Black individuals in a complex society. The narrative weaves together elements of science fiction and social commentary, reflecting on the struggles and resilience of its characters in a thought-provoking manner.
Contents: Down the River (1950) Come In, Spaceport (1974) Compounded Interest (1956) The Business, as Usual (1952) Freedom (1961) Revolution (1960) Burnt Toast (1955) Your Soul Comes C.O.D. (1952) Good Indian (1962) No Return from Elba (1953) Pacifist (1964) Subversive (1962) Earthlings Go Home! (1962) Albatross (1955) The Enemy Within (1967) Survivor (1966) Fad (1965) Spaceman on a Spree (1963) The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial (1965) Utopian (1970) Prone (1954) Second Advent (1974)
Als die Städte allmählich unbewohnbar wurden, baute man Demen, große autarke Wohntürme, in die man die Bevölkerung umsiedelte und ihr alle Annehmlichkeiten des modernen Lebens zur Verfügung stellte. Aber irgendwie scheinen die Menschen immer unzufriedenerzu werden. Interessengruppen geifern sich gegenseitig und die Verwaltung an, Randale und Sachbeschädigungen sind an der Tagesordnung. Für Bat Hardin, der für Ordnung zu sorgen hat, wird die Arbeit immer schwieriger. In der lückenlosen Computerüberwachung scheint es rätselhafte Lücken zu geben. Der Mißmut und die Ungeduld der Bürger wachsen. Der Untergrund wird immer mächtiger. Eine neue Schicht von Parasiten, die auf Kosten der Gemeinschaft ein Leben in Saus und Braus führt, hat sich längst etabliert und ist mit der Macht in den Demen verfilzt. Bat Hardin wird klar, daß dies alles nicht von ungefähr kommt. Es stehen handfeste Interessen dahinter. Etwa eine ins Sinnlose aufgeblähte Bauwirtschaft, die um Aufträge bangen muß, wenn nicht jährlich immer mehr Wohntürme, als »gefährlich« eingestuft, von den verunsicherten Bewohnern verlassen und abgerissen werden, damit man neue, »modernere« hochziehen kann. ISBN 3-453-05002-9 Science Fiction Deutsche Erstausgabe
"Notruf aus dem All" ist der große Klassiker unter den Star-Trek-Romanen - der allererste Roman zur Serie überhaupt ist in den USA seit 30 Jahren vergriffen und gilt auch bei deutschen Fans als heiß begehrtes und teuer gehandeltes Sammlerstück.
Definire insolito un romanzo di fantascienza, e raccomandarlo come tale ai lettori, può sembrare il colmo dell'ingenuità e del semplicismo. Eppure è proprio quest'aggettivo, insolito, che conviene prima di ogni altro al lungo e straordinario romanzo che presentiamo in questo numero di Natale: insolito per l'intreccio, d'una semplicità, e nello stesso tempo d'una sapienza unica nel dosaggio e nella progressione dei colpi di scena; insolito per l'acutezza dell'osservazione psicologica, superiore non solo a quella della fantascienza media, ma perfino a quella di uno specialista del «mordente» come Sheckley; insolito per la raffinatezza della scrittura, e per l'incredibile spigliatezza con cui affronta le situazioni «sociologiche» più sbalorditive, traendone effetti di un irresistibile realismo; insolito per un umorismo che, senza nuocere alla drammaticità della narrazione, arriva facilmente e senza parere, a vette di alta letteratura; insolito infine e soprattutto, per una carica fantastica che lo qualifica senz'altro, a nostro avviso, come il più nutrito e divertente di tutti i romanzi americani di fantascienza e non di fantascienza, tradotti in Italia quest'anno. Siamo doppiaamente lieti, perciò, di poterlo presentare ai nostri Lettori col nostro «Buon Natale». Copertina di Karel Thole
