Mack Reynolds

**Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds** (11 ga Nuwamba, 1917 - 30 ga Janairu, 1983) marubucin almara ne na kimiyya na Amurka. Sunayensa sun hada da **Dallas Ross**, **Mark Mallory**, **Clark Collins**, **Dallas Rose**, **Guy McCord**, **Maxine Reynolds**, **Bob Belmont**, da **Todd Harding**. Ayyukansa sun mayar da hankali kan hasashen zamantakewa da tattalin arziki, yawanci ana nuna su a cikin bincike mai haifar da tunani na al'ummomin utopian daga wani bangare mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, wani lokaci na satiric. Ya kasance sanannen marubuci daga shekarun 1950 zuwa 1970, musamman tare da masu karatun fiction kimiyya da mujallu masu ban sha'awa.

Reynolds shine marubucin farko da ya rubuta littafi na asali wanda ya danganci jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na NBC na 1966-1969 *Star Trek* . Littafin, Mission to Horatius (1968), an yi niyya ne ga matasa masu karatu.

## Tarihin rayuwa
An haifi Reynolds a Corcoran, California, ta biyu cikin 'ya'ya hudu na Verne La Rue Reynolds da Pauline McCord. Lokacin da iyalin suka koma Baltimore a 1918, mahaifinsa ya shiga Jam'iyyar Socialist Labor Party (SLP) don haka tun yana ƙarami Reynolds ya girma don karɓar ka'idodin Marxism da socialism.  ("An haife ni a cikin iyalin Marxian Socialist. Ni ne yaron da, yana da shekaru biyar ko shida, ya ce wa iyayensa, 'Mahaifiyar Yesu Kristi?' - domin ban taɓa saduwa da kowa a wannan gidan wanda ba a kira shi Comrade ba.")  A cikin 1935, yayin da yake makarantar sakandare a Kingston, New York, Reynolds ya shiga SLP kuma ya zama mai ba da shawara game da manufofin jam'iyyar. A shekara mai zuwa, ya zagaya kasar tare da mahaifinsa yana ba da laccoci da jawabai, kuma ya zama sananne a matsayin muhimmiyar karfi wajen ba da shawara ga SLP.

Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantar sakandare, Reynolds ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da rahoto ga *Catskill Morning Star* daga 1937-38 kuma a matsayin editan Oneonta News na mako-mako daga 1939-40. A shekara ta 1937, ya auri matarsa ta farko, Evelyn Sandell, tare da ita yana da 'ya'ya uku, Emil, La Verne, da Dallas Mack Jr. Daga 1940 zuwa 1943 Reynolds ya yi aiki ga IBM a San Pedro, California Shipyards. Ya kuma yi aiki sosai a matsayin mai shirya SLP, yana yakin neman zabe tare da dan takarar shugaban kasa na SLP John W. Aiken a 1940. Bayan ya halarci Makarantar Cadet na Jami'an Sojan Ruwa na Amurka da Makarantar Jami'an Ruwa na US, ya shiga rundunar Sufuri ta Sojan Amurka a 1944 kuma an ajiye shi a Philippines a matsayin mai ba da jirgin ruwa har zuwa 1945. Bayan dawowa gida daga Corps, Reynolds ta fahimci cewa Evelyn ta shiga cikin wani mutum. Sun sake aure kuma ta dauki 'ya'yansu tare da ita.

## Manyan jigogi
Duk da yake almara ta Reynolds ta ƙunshi abubuwa masu yawa na almara na kimiyya ciki har da tafiye-tafiye na lokaci, ziyarar baƙi, kwamfutocin duniya, al'adun Amazon, da kuma kasadar leken asiri na intergalactic, tambayoyin da ya yi game da tsarin zamantakewa da tattalin arziki ya ware shi daga sauran marubutan almara na kimiyyar. Dangane da haka, yawancin gudummawar Reynolds na asali ga fiction kimiyya sun kasance a cikin nau'ikan tsinkayen zamantakewa, wasu daga cikinsu sun wuce: tattalin arzikin katin kuɗi, cibiyar sadarwa ta kwamfuta ta duniya tare da bayanan da ke samuwa a yatsun mutum, "Yuropa ta yau da kullun," ainihin tabbacin samun kudin shiga ga kowane ɗan ƙasa, birane masu tafi-da-gidanka, ko al'ummomin duniya tare da addinin duniya da harshen Esperanto na kowa.

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