A rather too limited poll in another forum reminded me of how much I used to enjoy Mack Reynolds' work and I wondered how many here remembered him? It seems as if he sort of vanished after his death in 1983. I enjoyed his work a lot, even if it was rather political. But, then, I also enjoy much of Robert Heinlein's work, even when it is avowedly political, as in Starship Troopers.
As an aside, if you want to read three real time setpieces, try Heinlein'a Starship Troopers, which looks at combat from a WWII perspective, Harry Harrison's Bill the Galactic Hero, which looks at combat from a Korean War perspective, and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, a look at combat from the VietNam War perspective. Very different takes on the same subject and I suspect that the latter two were instigated by the first.
As an aside, if you want to read three real time setpieces, try Heinlein'a Starship Troopers, which looks at combat from a WWII perspective, Harry Harrison's Bill the Galactic Hero, which looks at combat from a Korean War perspective, and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, a look at combat from the VietNam War perspective. Very different takes on the same subject and I suspect that the latter two were instigated by the first.