Book description
It is the far future. Earth is beautifully planned efficiently run and
happily united. It is the world that dreamers have envisioned since the
beginning of time - no slums, no crime, no poverty, no disease, no
shortages. But still, it is a world with problems - people have become
so lazy, so self-satisfied, that human progress has all but ceased. To
make matters worse, addicts of the newly-developed "programmed
dreams" are increasing at an enormous rate. Only a few individuals
understand the far-reaching consequences of these problems; only a few
realize that the human race is destroying itself. Mack Reynolds
(1917-1983) Dallas McCord ('Mack') Reynolds was born in California in
1917. His father was the Socialist Labor Party Presidential Candidate on
two occasions, and Reynolds' life and work were deeply affected by his
political upbringing. After early careers in newspapers and computing,
Reynolds returned from the Second World War and began to write science
fiction. Based in Mexico but travelling widely in his role as Travel
Editor for a men's magazine, he started slowly but surely to sell his
work. Mack Reynolds wrote the first Star Trek novel, Mission to
Horatius, and was once voted Most popular SF Author by the readers of
Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. He died in 1983.
