Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (1917 - 1983) was an American science fiction writer. His pseudonyms included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. His stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine. Reynolds was an active member of the Socialist Labour Party and many of his stories contain socialist economic issues, Many of Reynolds predictions have come true such as a worldwide computer network and pocket computers. The story catches the readers attention with this cryptic beginning. Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizersthe Warrior acquires a strange new meaning....