Audiobooks by Mack Reynolds

It was a lesson you learned in the Space-Forces, and you learned it good: Out in the lonely void, when you get in a jam, you're on your own ... it's you against everything and everybody. Anything goes.... He was transporting a desperately ill little girl from Luna to earth after an atomic explosion. But his radio was out and he could not hear anything from the landing grid on earth which meant both of them would die. Unless another solution was found in time. Listen to this story and enjoy the depths of human ingenuity.

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: 4 Science Fiction Stories: A planet's strength was determined in the Arena where brut

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: Not In the Rules: A planet's strength was determined in the Arena where brute force e

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: Adaptation: To a hundred thousand worlds they sent as few as a hundred pioneers apiec

n 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were barred in this fight; propaganda was poured forth by both sides in a constant push to be seen as better, more progressive, more productive. Nuclear war was a constant threat. I know, I lived through that time. Thankfully the world came through that stressful time without a hot war but the question was not really settled: which is the better system? This story explores that question. 'Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to fumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars. And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy.' Colonies were left to survive or die on their own for 1000 years because they inevitably descended into barbarism and slowly grew knowledge and technology back. What kind of society would earth find when it came back after a millennium? Listen to this wonderful book and enjoy Reynolds humor and biting commentary on humans and our society.

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Happy Ending

Happy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds - A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting... There were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the space-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic Guards. The fourth sat in the prow of the small craft looking down at their goal, hunched and silent, bundled up in a greatcoat against the coolness of space—a greatcoat which he would never need again after this morning. The brim of his hat was pulled down far over his forehead, and he studied the nearing shore through dark-lensed glasses. Bandages, as though for a broken jaw, covered most of the lower part of his face. He realized suddenly that the dark glasses, now that they had left the cruiser, were unnecessary. He slipped them off. After the cinematographic grays his eyes had seen through these lenses for so long, the brilliance of the color below him was almost like a blow. He blinked, and looked again. They were rapidly settling toward a shoreline, a beach. The sand was a dazzling, unbelievable white such as had never been on his home planet. Blue the sky and water, and green the edge of the fantastic jungle. There was a flash of red in the green, as they came still closer, and he realized suddenly that it must be a marigee, the semi-intelligent Venusian parrot once so popular as pets throughout the solar system. Throughout the system blood and steel had fallen from the sky and ravished the planets, but now it fell no more. And now this. Here in this forgotten portion of an almost completely destroyed world it had not fallen at all.

Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: 5 Great Science Fiction Stories

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: I'm A Stranger Here Myself: One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in T

One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm a stranger here myself. And so starts another quirky Mack Reynolds science fiction tale that takes us to places and things with unexpected endings. This is a short but very enjoyable story if you don't mind the thought of humans being raised as exotic food.

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Happy Ending

A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting ... A dictator that could no longer cause the death of millions with a word, a dictator that could no longer dictate. Where could he hide from justice? Only the kifs liked him. They liked him a lot.

Fredrick Brown, Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: Potential Enemy: Anything can be a potential threat

Humans are not exactly a peace loving species. We see danger everywhere. Evolution has equipped those of our ancestors who survived with a very strong sense of fear and the need to always protect ourselves. Those who lacked these sensibilities simply did not last as long or reproduce as well. Thus, everything is a threat to us humans until proven otherwise. And even after proven not to be an immediate threat we are still very suspicious and wary. Mack Reynolds takes this proclivity and gives us a story about the future that is both humorous and frightening because it is so sadly true. Everything, no matter how peaceful looking now, is a potential enemy and thus should be eliminated. No, must be eliminated. Otherwise who knows what will happen, eh?

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: MEDAL OF HONOR: According to tradition, the man who held the Galactic Medal of Honor

According to tradition, the man who held the Galactic Medal of Honor could do no wrong. In a strange way, Captain Don Mathers was to learn that this was true. What would this power do to the mind and soul of an ordinary man? He could literally 'Do no wrong', everything was permitted him. Imagine how you would feel. Mack Reynolds, in his delightfully quirky way, gives a story that will hold your attention to the last word and give you something to think about for the rest of the day. How does human nature deal with unlimited power? Not well.

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Mack Reynolds: Gun For Hire: A gun is an interesting weapon; it can be hired, of course, and natural

A gun is an interesting weapon; it can be hired, of course, and naturally doesn't care who hires it. Something much the same can be said of the gunman, too.... In the far future it may become extremely difficult to even think of doing violence on another creature, much less actually performing a violent act on a fellow human. But some people will still wish to do nasty things to others especially those whom they think really deserve to be uh.....removed. And so reaching back into the past for a less squeamish individual seems the perfect solution. Except of course when it isn't.

Mack Reynolds (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 27 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most influential authors of the time including, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Winston Marks, Damon Knight, Mack Reynolds, Frank M. Robinson, Russ Winterbotham, Alan E. Nourse, Charles E. Fritch, Milton Lesser, Evan Hunter, William Morrison, John Massie Davis, Irving Cox Jr., Malcolm B. Morehart Jr., Richard O. Lewis, Stanley Mullen, Richard Magruder, Joseph Slotkin, Alexander Blade, Arnold Castle, Richard S. Shaver and James McKimmey Jr. Included are The Hanging Stranger, Beyond Lies the Wub, The Gun, Beyond the Door, The Eyes Have It, Foster You're Dead, Sales Pitch, Small Town and Piper in the Woods written by Philip K. Dick. Lazarus Come Forth, Asleep in Armageddon and Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury.

Alan E. Nourse, Alexander Blade, Arnold Castle, Charles E. Fritch, Damon Knight, Evan Hunter, Frank M. Robinson, Irving Cox Jr., James Mckimmey Jr., John Massie Davis, Joseph Slotkin, Mack Reynolds, Malcolm B. Morehart Jr., Milton Lesser, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Richard Magruder, Richard O. Lewis, Richard S. Shaver, Russ Winterbotham, Stanley Mullen, William Morrison, Winston Marks (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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