Mack Reynolds
6 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. |
| little green man n. | 1951 Case of Little Green Men 17 Maddigan twisted his beefy shoulders. ‘Possibly the flying saucers; there are as many different opinions on that phenomenon as there have been saucers sighted. Possibly they arent [sic] extra-terrestrial at all, but even if they're not, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t had, or do not have now, visitors among us.’ ‘Why?’ I asked. ‘Why should these little green men want to come to earth?’ Maddigan waggled a finger at me. ‘I am disappointed in you, Mr. Knight,’ he said peevishly. ‘This is a subject in which you are little versed. You have admitted almost complete ignorance, but still you are contemptuous. You say jokingly, ‘little green men’, and your tone of voice implies that the very thought of alien life is ridiculous. Yet you have no evidence to support your prejudice.’ |
| 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. |