Mack Reynolds

Dallas McCord Reynolds better known as 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.

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.

Mack 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.

Selected Bibliography
Complete Bibliography

Series

• Homer Crawford
  • Black Man's Burden (1972)
    • Magazine/Anthology Appearances:
    • Black Man's Burden (Part 1 of 2) (1961)
    • Black Man's Burden (Part 2 of 2) (1962)
  • Border, Breed nor Birth (1972)
  • The Best Ye Breed (1978)

• Joe Mauser
  • Mercenary From Tomorrow (1962)
  • The Earth War (1963)
  • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (1964)
    • Magazine/Anthology Appearances:
    • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (Part 1 of 3) (1964)
    • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (Part 2 of 3) (1964)
    • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (Part 3 of 3) (1964)
  • The Fracas Factor (1978)
  • Time Gladiator (1984) with Michael A. Banks

• Lagrange
  • The Five Way Secret Agent (1969)
    • Magazine/Anthology Appearances:
    • The Five Way Secret Agent (Part 1 of 2) (1969)
    • The Five Way Secret Agent (Part 2 of 2) (1969)
  • Satellite City (1975)
  • Lagrange Five (1979)
  • The Lagrangists (1983) with Dean Ing
  • Chaos in Lagrangia (1984) with Dean Ing
  • Trojan Orbit (1985) with Dean Ing

• Rolltown
  • Commune 2000 A.D. (1974)
  • The Towers of Utopia (1975)
  • Rolltown (1976)

• United Planets
  • Planetary Agent X (1965)
  • Dawnman Planet (1967)
  • The Rival Rigelians (1967)
  • Code Duello (1968)
  • Section G: United Planets (1976)

Collections

• Planetary Agent X (1965)
• Depression or Bust (1974)
• The Best of Mack Reynolds (1976)
• Compounded Interests (1983)

Anthologies

• Science-Fiction Carnival (1953) with Fredric Brown

Poems

• Three Unanswerable Questions (1983)

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