In the 21st century, nine men must fight to the death for their respective countries in an arena worthy of ancient Rome.

Here is a saucy, realistic ovel of a group of pleasure-seeking expatriates living it up in the Paris that few tourists see . . .Shelley Halliday, who made a living showing the seamy side of Parisian night life to Americans . . .Felicity Patterson, twice wed and many times brought to bed, who wanted Shelley but would marry only . . .Michael Brett-James, a titles Englishman, who preferred "men" but was willing to settle for a mere woman if she had money . . .Bigelow Warren, who could be virile with a "bad" woman but was always impotent with a "good" one until he met . . .Connie Lockwood, Shelley's childhood sweetheart, still a virgin, but dying to start living.Paris was a powerful experience to all of them, adding salt to their wounds, balm to their spirits and spice to their lives.

"Mercenary From Tomorrow" is the story of 21st Century Earth--a world where work is forgotten, where the masses fight boredom with trank pills and telly, and where it is almost impossible to leave the social class you were born in. You could break the class barrier only by hiring yourself out as a mercenary to fight in the prime-time wars that are fought to keep the telly-viewing public satisfied. That is the only way to move up the ladder..if you could stay alive long enough.

United Planets' spy team included a man who could never lose a bet — but this time the odds were astronomical!

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His words alone could change the world-his words alone DID change the world. Was it mass hypnosis, a hex, or THE POWER? - "This is one of most the unusual books we have ever published & defies categorization:it is more than sci-fi , more than a novel.It is one of the most shocking books you will ever read"

One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm A Stranger Here Myself

It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!

The turmoil in Africa is only beginning - and it must grow worse before it's better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans - not warring tribesmen - will there be peace....The turmoil in Africa is only beginning - and it must grow worse before it's better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans - not warring tribesmen - will there be peace....

Liberator of North Africa, charismatic conqueror of Islam, in reality he is Homer Crawford, "turncoat" black American sociologist who is determined to lead the Dark Continent into the modern age by whatever means are necessary. Arrayed against him are all the forces of the status quo: the combined military might of the North African states, mercenary hirelings of corrupt oil sheikdoms, Moslem religious fanatics, and the American CIA. Only the people are for El Hassan, and they, only so long as he is victorious.

Elements of this novel appeared in Analog under the titles, "Romp" and "Extortion, Inc." and in Galaxy under the titles, "Criminal in Utopia" and "Cry Wolf

Driven from their ancestral lands when the U.S. discovered uranium there, the Apaches declared war--even though it meant facing the overpowering might of the U.S. Army. Washington had trouble already in New Mexico. Ross Prager, charismatic head of the vocal Posterity Party, was in hiding there, lying low while the government tried to bury his reforms--and Ross. Tough luck for both causes? Only until Prager and the Apaches joined forces. And when they brought in the unstoppable Chutzba family--Franny, Sweet Alice, and all--Washington panicked.

There was once a group of like-minded people called the L-5 Society, founded in 1975. Their sole purpose was to "place a colony at LaGrange Point #5, the one trailing the Moon at 60 degrees" or "to found the first colony in space." The board of directors included the sci-fi powerhouses of both Robert Heinlein and Jerry Pournelle. The Society even had a monthly magazine, eloquently named L-5 News. In 1986, the Society merged with the National Space Institute. In the novel LaGrange Five, Mack Reynolds shows us in fiction how such a society would exist, which ends up operating more like fantasy than reality. Rex Bader is a private investigator from earth who is called to Island Three at the LaGrange Point to solve the mystery of the missing professor and father of the entire LaGrange Point project. At the same time as the investigation, the cases of Wide Syndrome (a contagious kind of claustrophobia) are on the increase and there are talks of revolution. Who is behind all three scenarios and what can Rex do to save the day? Yes, the premise does sound hokey and the novel will disappoint you as it is, indeed, hokey. I admire Reynolds' gusto about the subject of the L-5 community, but the storyline is flat, all laid out and very predictable. I would say it was written for the juvenile audience if it wasn't for the occasional swear words and the one sex scene. I also admire Reynolds' insistence that the pseudo-syndicalism style of government with its superior intelligent human beings will make an `idyllic utopia.' The socialist/communist stance of the novel is clearly made as is the persistent claim that modern society isn't working and drastic social change is needed to raise equality, fairness and Utopian ideals. His head is obviously in the clouds. This all comes from me- one registered with the Socialist Party! Too dreamy, too optimistic. Besides the high idealism involved, the writing style is for the birds. I don't know why Reynolds insists on repeating the name Rex Bader at the beginning of every chapter and interspersed though the paragraphs. And why does the mild idiosyncratic expletive "Wizard" have to appear 30 times through the 227 page book? Its repetition is annoying, as is the reiteration of L-5 facts. It seemed like every fact had to be repeated twice even though very little of it led into the plot's predictable solution at all.