Mack Reynolds

DEPRESSION OR BUST "Son," the president said. "What in the name of Moses is going on in this country?" Weigand, his pipe clenched tightly between his teeth, said, "Mr. President, it's a Depression." "A Depression?" "Yes, sir." "What is a Depression?" "Well sir, I've been reading up on it. We haven't had one since 1939. Before our time, of course. What usually happens is that businesses fold, millions of people lose their jobs and go on relief--" "All right, I think I get the idea. But how do you get rid of them?" Weigand had been afraid he was going to ask that. "That's a good question..."

Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is it the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from space? Or something even more sinister? When the President orders secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter's first discovery is that the Soviets are indeed involved. His second is that they are not alone. He will probably not live to make a third...

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. The Corporate Wars offer what little excitement their lives hold: deadly serious fighting action -- live and in color But when you play with armies, you play with fire. The world's leaders seem to have forgotten that, but Joe Mauser hasn't.

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. would be his next conquest. Unless Fielding could rally the natives and erase Cortez's bloody footsteps from the New World forever...

It is the far future. Earth is beautifully planned, efficiently run and happily united. It is the world that dreamers have envisioned since the beginning of time -- no slums, no crime, no poverty, no disease, no shortages. But still, it is a world with problems. People have become so lazy, so self-satisfied, that human progress has all but ceased. To make matters worse, addicts of the newly-developed "programmed dreams" are increasing at an enormous rate. Only a few individuals understand the far-reaching consequences of these problems; only a few realize that the human race is destroying itself. What these few individuals do is the basis of another fantastic novel of the possible future by the author of ROLLTOWN, LOOKING BACKWARD FROM THE YEAR 2000 and BLACKMAN'S BURDEN.

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 century policeman.

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 could be allowed to hold up the progress of mankind; Section G was ordered to bring them down -- by any means necessary

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 Earth sought that medal... One man was going to cheat to win it -- and live to regret it.

It is sometime in the near future. The nations of Earth have drawn closer together -- there is even hope that a new era of cooperation and progress will soon begin.These 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

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...

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 City. No nation or international body had any jurisdiction there; it was a law unto itself. No one knew who owned it; or what went on within its private council rooms...until one man penetrated the wall of secrecy and discovered Satellite City's hidden masters