Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer.
14 Facts About Mack Reynolds
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Mack Reynolds's work focused on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking explorations of utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric perspective.
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Mack Reynolds was a popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fiction and fantasy magazines.
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Mack Reynolds was born in Corcoran, California, the second of four children of Verne La Rue Mack Reynolds and Pauline McCord.
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From 1940 to 1943 Mack Reynolds worked for IBM at the San Pedro, California Shipyards.
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Mack Reynolds worked actively as an organizer for the SLP, campaigning with SLP presidential candidate John W Aiken in 1940.
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Mack Reynolds's first published science fiction story, "Isolationist" appeared in Fantastic Adventures in June 1950.
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In 1953, the Mack Reynolds moved to San Miguel de Allende, in Guanajuato, Mexico, where they lived for only eighteen months before embarking on a journey through Europe and the East that lasted almost ten years and included stays in Greece, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Eastern Europe, Finland, India, Japan, and Hong Kong.
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In 1955, Mack Reynolds became a correspondent for Rogue magazine and began making money writing about his travels as well as from his science fiction stories, whose socioeconomic speculations now reflected the insights gained from his encounters with other cultures.
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In 1965, the Mack Reynolds returned to San Miguel de Allende to live.
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Mack Reynolds began his most ambitious undertaking, a series of stories envisioning life in the year 2000.
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The New England Science Fiction Association, which had invited Mack Reynolds to be its Guest of Honor at Boskone XX, published the collection Compounded Interests to be released as part of his appearance, but Mack Reynolds died three weeks before the convention.
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Mack Reynolds sought to shake his readers' complacent acceptance of Cold War capitalism by depicting a variety of post-capitalist near futures, many of which he envisioned could occur around the year 2000.
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Typically, Mack Reynolds' Utopias are worlds of almost complete industrial automation so that no one needs to work, everyone lives in security thanks to a guaranteed basic income, and those who volunteer for the few jobs left are chosen via a quantitative ability test.