When the Asian Wars were over Major Bert Alshuler had few prospects, until Mid-West University asked him to take part in an "educational experiment" that would test the effect of certain drugs on his I.Q.
The project was top secret, but it looked like an easy way to make money and get an education, so Bert saw no reason to worry - until his girlfriend was kidnapped.and someone...
Blackman's Burden is one of Reynolds's earlier novels. His ideas are played out much closer to home, in a time much closer to ours. The time is the near future. The place is Africa. In a reaction to centuries of largely-botched colonialism, the rest of the world has chosen to leave Africa pretty much on its own. Aside from some modernization efforts by the Reunited Nations &...
El Hassan, would-be tyrant of all N. Africa, was on the run. His followers at this point numbered six, one of whom was a wisp of a 24-year-old girl. Arrayed against him & his dream, he knew, was the combined power of the world in the form of the Reunited Nations, &, in addition, such individual powers as the United States of the Americas, the Soviet Complex, Common Europe, the...
The Best Ye Breed is a science fiction novella by Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds. In terms of plot, it is the third in a sequence of near-future stories set in North Africa, which also includes Black Man's Burden (1961-2), Border, Breed nor Birth (1962), and "Black Sheep Astray" (1973).
In parallel stories, four operatives are given conflicting missions in response to the...
John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way things had to be.
Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know...
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