Mack Reynolds 5 min read

Aerial combat comes home in a chilling near-future vision of 1973, from a master of sharp social science fiction.

Mack Reynolds's story imagines militarized conflict in a world just ahead of its writing, in the pointed, socially aware style that made him a magazine favorite. Brisk, provocative military SF. Read it for a lean, idea-driven tale of war and technology projected onto a very near tomorrow.

In its time

Published in 1973, during the 1970s, feminist sf emerges.

Reading it

5 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).