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1) Rolltown
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In Rolltown, Mack Reynolds turns his productive imagination towards the growing phenomenon of mobile living in America. Taking us decades into the future, he tells the story of a world where people have taken to the road en masse, in huge mobile "towns" composed of hundreds or even thousands of inhabitants, attempting to deal with a hostile and over-organized world.
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The team from Earth had the task of raising backward planets to the home world's high level. But the Rigelians were themselves descended from the lost colonists of old Earth and they could learn their lessons as fast as they could be taught. In fact, they could even teach their teachers a thing or two. And therein lay the peril the professors from space never dreamed of.
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Life under a Deathwish policy was fun while it lasted, but for Deathwisher Roy Cox it was far more than that. For him, gaining access to great wealth in exchange for becoming a target for hired killers was a political act: you can buy a lot of media attention with a million pseudobucks, and Roy had a cause worth dying for.
Already Roy has survived twice the term of the average Deathwisher, and people are getting interested in what he has to say....
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It's a crooked road to world peace...but it works. Warfare between nations has been banned. Taking its place are the Corporate Wars - full-scale battles between mercenary armies hired by large corporations, ostensibly to settle trade disputes.
But the wars are also free entertainment for the masses. In a world where most jobs have been taken over by automation, free tranquilizers have to be issued to the vast lower class to keep them subdued. The...
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A step in an odd direction - a moment of dizziness - and archaeologist Dan Fielding was thrust through an invisible barrier found hundred years into the past. He was still in the Mexican desert - but it was the desert of the 16th century, and Mexico was in the grip of the conquistador Hernando Cortez.
Inevitably, Cortez captured Fielding - and learned of the rich territory north of the Rio Grande. The land that would one day become the U.S. would...
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Mack Reynolds has always been admired for his ability to portray the world of the future in its varied aspects - social, political, scientific and economic. Now, he presents his readers with an imaginative and action-packed look into the everyday life of a twenty-first century policeman.
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Welcome to our third volume of Mack Reynolds' work, this time presenting 3 great novels: Galactic Medal of Honor, The Rival Rigelian, and Space Pioneer. These are more recent works than the ones in the first two Mack Reynolds MEGAPACK® and showcase his science fiction at the top of his form.
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L-5, a point in the Earth-Moon System where orbits are forever and the new age of Freedom and Plenty can begin. Now, they're trying to kill the man in charge of the first L-5 colony, and Private Eye Rex Bader is the man who will have to find and stop them. But who are the killers? Only time -- and blood -- will tell!
10) Code Duello
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United Planets' spy team included a man who could never lose a bet - but this time the odds were astronomical!
11) Commune 2000 AD
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It was the future perfect, the greatest society in human history, with peace and plenty, and total sexual freedom. Utopia paid you the Universal Guaranteed Income, whether you worked or not. Yet something was wrong it was a fractured Utopia.
By the thousands, the disenchanted fled the cities to join tiny, mobile towns that sprang up wildly. It was called The Commune Phenomenon. Super leaders of the super future challenged Swain to locate the worm...
12) Trojan Orbit
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Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space -- or something even more sinister?
When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on,...
13) The Common Man
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Fun, thoughtful read. It touches on the arrogance of the "educated" and the base nature of man. Oldie, but goodie. Those themes resonate today, more than ever, with degree inflation and more people with higher education but lower critical thinking skills.
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The Galactic Medal of Honor was the most important, the most coveted award of all time. It was given only to a handful of the bravest and most self-sacrificing of those defending earth from the mysterious alien invaders that had appeared fifty years before. It was almost always given posthumously. The Bearer of this medal became the idol of all mankind, would never want for any necessity or luxury-would never want for anything. Everyone on Earth sought...
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Great action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Dogfight - 1973": A short but intense story on future air fights. Very prophetic of the current use of drones in warfare. Other titles included: "Happy Ending", Medal Of Honor", "Off Course", "Ultima Thule", "Freedom", "Status Quo", "Border, Breed Nor Birth".
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Great action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Subversive" Issues like "designed obselecence" and a glut of whitecollar pointless service jobs, are omnipresent in our world. Another battle between those communists and capitalists..., also: "Summit", "Revolution", "Unborn Tomorrow", "Gunn For Hire", "Mercenary,"Adaptation" ,and "I'm A Stranger Here Myself"
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Science fiction and crime go hand-in-tentacle, if you'll pardon the expression. Many of the science fiction field's greatest writers also wrote mysteries...and vice versa. And sometimes the science fiction stories were mysteries. Our latest MEGAPACK® contains nothing but those blended SF-and-Mystery stories, by some of the greatest writers in the field. Included are:
ORIGINS OF GALACTIC LAW, by Edward Wellen
DragNeuroNet, by John Gregory Betancourt
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The world situation has become so confused that a young American living on Negative Income Tax finds himself drafted into an international espionage assignment by no less than 5 opposing interests. It is a story of humor and adventure that will be hard to forget.