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!

Mack Reynolds wrote a number of socio-political science fiction works in the 1960s and 1970s, most of which are sadly forgotten today. Tomorrow Might be Different takes on a fascinating premise -- what if the Soviet Union's planned economy actually worked? What if they were able to mass-produce consumer goods to meet internal needs, and to export them cheaply -- in essence, what the Chinese are doing now. The answer -- a massive depression in the US, since the Russians have put most American domestic industries out of business. The solution arrived at by protagonist Mike Edwards is an unusual one. Edwards, with the help of some super-secret spook types, proposes to combat Marxism with that Old Time Religion. The CIA and NATO finance a gospel Manhattan project, sending missionaries into the Soviet Union, spreading a "modern" gospel based on one central idea -- everything in moderation. The movement is a great success. And Reynold's ending is a sucker punch from nowhere that is brilliant. Reynolds writes in a straightforward style, draws his characters well, throws in a good boy-meets-girl subplot with unashamed sex scenes, and in 200 pages gives you a good old-fashioned read. He avoids the literary pretentiousness that infects so much science fiction today, but does lay out some interesting observations on Capitalism, Marxism, and Christianity. This is highly recommended.

Before you wish for something--or send agents to get it for you--make very, very sure you really want it. You might get it, you know....

'Subversive'' is, in essence, a negative term--it means simply ''against the existent system.'' It doesn't mean subversives all agree...

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....

The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But it leaves a wake of profitless crime and motiveless murder...and puts the future of mankind's paradise-on-earth in peril!

Julian West had been put into a hypnotic trance and placed in a sealed room. Then the house burned down and he was forgotten...until he awoke forty years later. It was the year 2000, and it seemed like Utopia.But would it be Utopia for Julian West? He was a man of the past, totally unable to adapt to the unbelievable social, political and cultural changes; totally unable to assimilate the explosive advances in all branches of knowledge.Julian West was a child, lost among the wonders of the Twenty-First Century

L-5 a point in the Earth Moon system where orbits are forever in the new age of freedom and plenty can begin.

Freedom is a very dangerous thing indeed. It is so catching—like a plague—even the doctors get it.

Unfortunately, there was only one thing he could bring back from the wonderful future... and though he didn't want to... nevertheless he did....

In a time when teaching machines and batteries of educational tests seem to be determining the intellectual nobility of the next generation, this story has meaning for all of us.

The Second Mack Reynolds Megapack assembles a stellar collection of rare and classic works by a science fiction master! Here are 21 tales spanning space and time, including:COME IN, SPACEPORTCOMPOUNDED INTERESTTHE BUSINESS, AS USUALGOOD INDIANNO RETURN FROM ELBAPACIFISTEARTHLINGS GO HOME!ALBATROSSTHE ENEMY WITHINSURVIVORFADSPACEMAN ON A SPREETHE ADVENTURE OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIALUTOPIANPRONEDOWN THE RIVERSECOND ADVENTROMPFIDOISOLATIONISTNOT IN THE RULESAnd if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics—and much, much more!

Dedicated men can often employ the most unethical of tactics—and sometimes with a clear conscience… Here is a tale of such a man, but one who developed a conscience.

When the world’s ace secret agents crash a party in Spain, they’re onto something monstrous—an ominous threat to world peace. It looked like a Convention of Secret Agents, thought the famous columnist Quentin Jones. Not one of them had been invited to the party of the distinguished Hungarian scientist. The Hungarian was known for advocating World Government—and for grafting a second head on a dog—but Quentin Jones suspected him of far more chilling experiments. Quentin runs up against former Nazi war criminals, and a series of weird murders that lead straight to… him.

El Hassan, would-be tyrant of all North Africa, was on the run. His followers at this point numbered six, one of whom was a wisp of a twenty-four year old girl. Arrayed against him and his dream, he knew, was the combined power of the world in the form of the Reunited Nations, and, in addition, such individual powers as the United States of the Americas, the Soviet Complex, Common Europe, the French Community, the British Commonwealth and the Arab Union, working both together and unilaterally... A novel of colonialism set in North Africa, "Border, Breed Nor Birth" originally appeared as a serial in ANALOG under the editorship of the legendary John W. Campbell, Jr.