Comprehensive information and links about Mack Reynolds

Mack Reynolds "Reynolds' Mission to Horatius (1968), the first original novel based on the television show Star Trek" (Dallas McCord Reynolds) (November 11, 1917 - January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. Many of his stories were published in . 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 is out of print today.

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Biography

Mack Reynolds was born in Corcoran, California in 1917. 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. In 1949 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 1983. In the 1950s he worked as the travel editor for the

Writing Career

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 world-wide networks with information available at your fingertips.

Reynolds has the distinction of being the first author to write an original novel based upon , which was aimed at young readers and appeared in 1968.

His pen names included: Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, and Dallas Ross. In 1972 he used the pen name "Maxine Reynolds" on two romantic suspense novels, , 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 2nd 'United Planets - Section G' book): 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.)

External links

Mack Reynolds at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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