Mack Reynolds 3 hr 10 min read

El Hassan, would-be unifier of all North Africa, is on the run with six followers against the combined power of the whole world.

Mack Reynolds's 1962 novel (a sequel in his El Hassan sequence) drives its fugitive revolutionary into the Great Erg of the Sahara, dramatizing the hard, violent work of forging a nation. Serious, informed social SF unusually engaged with African politics and pan-national identity. Read it for muscular, idea-driven golden-age SF about revolution, unity, and survival.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr