Frigid Fracas

In any status-hungry culture, the level a man is assigned depends on what people think he is-not on what he is. And that, of course, means that only the deliberately phony has real status! Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer who wrote under the pen names Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His works include a focus on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in explorations of Utopian societies.