Expediter

Depression or Bust

by Mack Reynolds

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Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 13, 2010

About the author

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in "Galaxy Magazine" and "Worlds of If Magazine". He was quite popular in the 1960s, but most of his work subsequently went out of print.

He was an active supporter of the Socialist Labor Party; his father, Verne Reynolds, was twice the SLP's Presidential candidate, in 1928 and 1932. Many of MR's stories use SLP jargon such as 'Industrial Feudalism' and most deal with economic issues in some way

Many of Reynolds' stories took place in Utopian societies, and many of which fulfilled L. L. Zamenhof's dream of Esperanto used worldwide as a universal second language. His novels predicted much that has come to pass, including pocket computers and a world-wide computer network with information available at one's fingertips.

Many of his novels were written within the context of a highly mobile society in which few people maintained a fixed residence, leading to "mobile voting" laws which allowed someone living out of the equivalent of a motor home to vote when and where they chose.

Reviews

[☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ · Rating 4 out of 5]

A prime example of wishful thinking. You take an average student, grant him with power to do things and, voila!, he becomes the efficiency consultant out of the blue. If that were so easy, why everyone else isn't doing that? Or are they not average enough?

Anyway, a fun read.

[Odin Omdal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cold war SF novella set in a communist setting. Quick read, I liked it for its nostalgic quality and somewhat dystopian-ish but still not fully malfunctioning world. :p

[James Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick read. Quite enjoyable. Be careful what you wish for.

[Drasko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short story but for anybody who used to live in any Communist country it is sum of life in semi-dystopian nightmare. According to the names used (Kardelj etc) story takes place in ex-Yugoslavia (which in 1963 was far from "ex").Cockamamie ideas did really proliferated in that society but as one look at todays woke policies those ones of 60y ago are actually benign. The knock at 3 am is personification of all the terror of those times but it seams that we didn't learn a lot in spite "Historia" being "Magistra vitae". We have being terrorized in the name of God, in the name of king (queen), in the name of people and recently in the name of health (!!). Only common denominator is terror which is so endeared to our young generations (ANTIFA, BLM, woke-s etc). They all forget that little slip in politics and from terrorizer one becomes victim of terror (which is obvious in this story on many levels) or as Trotsky said: "Revolution eats it's children". Looking at the quality of today's children good old Revolution will get severe indigestion!!

[William]

Entertaining fantasy listening 🎶🔰
Another will written fantasy earth 🌎 futuristic adventure thriller short story by Mack Reynolds above what happens to a young man 🚹 who is taken in by the Russians and what happens. I would recommend this novella to readers of futuristic novels. Enjoy the adventure of novels 👍🔰and books 📚. 2022

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable story if a little dated now. However, the punch line at the end of the story about politicians sounds remarkably true and appropriate today!