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Summit
Great action short story! Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds, his pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, and Dallas Ross, was interested in political reform - his novels explore economic and Utopian issues. In his novels he predicted the pocket computer and a world-wide computer network - the Internet!
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First published January 20, 2008
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Mack Reynolds
509 books43 followersDallas 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.
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.
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June 19, 2011
What really happens at the super power summits? This just might be right.
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Public Domain stories from Project Gutenberg, that are read by volunteers.
I listen to these short stories while walking to and from work.
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Read By: RK Wilcox
Audio Book MP3 downloaded from
http://librivox.org/short-science-fic...
Public Domain stories from Project Gutenberg, that are read by volunteers.
I listen to these short stories while walking to and from work.
Play Duration: 00:12:07
Read By: RK Wilcox
October 17, 2012
Extremely political book that would probably have seemed a lot closer to home during the cold war.
Another Librivox bed time story. :)
Another Librivox bed time story. :)
December 3, 2025
A story which reflects the Cold War situation.
The Earth is politically divided into two camps: Socialist and Capitalist. Two men, the top leaders from both sides, meet for their yearly summit, to sign a "shaky" agreement between the two to prevent the final war. Earth is, of course on a permanent war setting, i.e. it's an armed "peace".
The two leaders are good buddies, just doing their jobs. During the private "Summit", they have drinks, shoot the breeze in a friendly manner, and talk politics.
The main gist if the story is an analysis of war politics and its effects on global economics.
The twist in this story though, is that Venus and Mars were both colonized. Each planet by one side only.
And then there was "Bomb Day" when the Earth blew itself up. It was recolonized by Venus and Mars thus establishing the two camps now present, controlling the Earth.
They know of no other way to run the Earth.
The Earth is politically divided into two camps: Socialist and Capitalist. Two men, the top leaders from both sides, meet for their yearly summit, to sign a "shaky" agreement between the two to prevent the final war. Earth is, of course on a permanent war setting, i.e. it's an armed "peace".
The two leaders are good buddies, just doing their jobs. During the private "Summit", they have drinks, shoot the breeze in a friendly manner, and talk politics.
The main gist if the story is an analysis of war politics and its effects on global economics.
The twist in this story though, is that Venus and Mars were both colonized. Each planet by one side only.
And then there was "Bomb Day" when the Earth blew itself up. It was recolonized by Venus and Mars thus establishing the two camps now present, controlling the Earth.
They know of no other way to run the Earth.
September 25, 2018
In Librivox SSF Collection Vol 005 & 018. Set in the future 2 cold war antagonists discuss their beliefs. They compare and contrast their philosophies - Russian versus American political ideologies. Insights abound from their candid discussion of the economy of war. The reader is encouraged conclude this future is sadly inevitable unless we change soon. It's turning out pretty similar to this prophesy too. Nite to Self see my first review under author = Dallas McCord Reynolds. FYI Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds, pen names included Mack Reynolds , Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, and Dallas Ross.
June 15, 2011
More cold war stuff. But short.
September 3, 2012
A science fiction short story by Mack Reynolds...
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