Mack Reynolds 52 min read

For decades critics predicted the Soviet collapse, but what would replace it? Not Czarism, surely, nor Western capitalism. A visitor to Moscow imagines the surprising answer.

Mack Reynolds's 1960 story is a sharp, provocative dystopian social-SF speculation on the future of the U.S.S.R. Clever, controversial, ideas-driven golden-age SF. Read it for a shrewd Cold War thought-experiment about what might rise from the ashes of the Soviet system.

In its time

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

Reading it

52 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).