Mack Reynolds

5 Quotations from Mack Reynolds
alien life form n. | 1951 | Case of Little Green Men 18 We want to employ you to investigate the presence of such alien life forms.
extraterrestrial n. | 1951 | Case of the Little Green Men 38 ‘Listen, Harry… You hired me to check on whether or not any extra-terrestrials—’ I'd picked up that word in the stories I'd been reading all afternoon—‘were hanging around your affairs. I don’t think sitting here reading your magazine is going to get me very far along in that direction.’
Jupiterian n. | 1965 | Of Godlike Power in Worlds of Tomorrow July 21/2 Moses, Jesus, Mohammed and the Buddha were among those who loused up the true religion revealed to them by the Jupiterians.
planetary engineering n. | 1974 | Second Advent in Worlds of If June 139/2 Even the planetary engineering resulting in the creation of this world took approximately seven days, using your present system of time measure.
space cruiser n. | 1953 | Stowaway in Universe Science Fiction June 110/1 The conversation between Doc Thorndon and Kathy had been a lengthy one, and the officers and crew of the space cruiser New Taos would have been surprised at the ship’s doctr [sic] they thought they knew so well for his gentle kindliness.