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THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 671, May 20, 2012
"Mitt Romney is just Barack Hussein Obama II
riding an elephant instead of a jackass"
Special to L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Howdy, howdy, howdy!
(To quote the vultures in my favorite Gary Larsen cartoon):
From time to time, folks ask me for an up-to-date listof my books.
Here is the latest. See my books in print at Phoenix Pick (through \
Amazon.com and B&N.com), BigHeadPress.com, JPFO.org,
Baen Books, and Mountain Media. Many are also available in e-book
formats such as Kindle and Nook.
In original order of publication, then ...
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THE PROBABILITY BROACH (Del Rey, Dec. 1979—Tor Books, Dec. 2001)
In a deadly conflict with murderous federal agents, Denver
homicide detective Win Bear is accidentally blown "sideways" in time,
into the North American Confederacy, where the Whiskey Rebellion
succeeded in 1794, and government has grown less powerful ever since.
L. Neil Smith's first book, originally published by Del Rey Books
(Random House), 1980, and Tor Books, 1996. 1980/81. Prometheus Award
winner, widely considered "the" definitive libertarian novel.
Reissued by Tor Books, December, 2001 in trade format.
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THE VENUS BELT (Del Rey, 1980—Phoenix Pick, 2009)
How does a totally ethical culture conquer its "final frontier"?
A mysterious series of disappearances leads gumshoe Win Bear, assisted
by Koko Featherstone-Haugh (a young female gorilla) and Lucy Kropotkin
(a disgruntled murder victim temporarily housed in a robot body) to
the asteroids, a super-villain with an all-too-familiar face, and a
conspiracy stretching across whole universes.
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THEIR MAJESTIES' BUCKETEERS (Del Rey Books, 1981)
On an alien world whose furry, nine-legged, crablike inhabitants,
the lamviin, are just entering their own "Age of Invention", a royal
"fireman" must create the art of criminal detection from scratch, in
order to solve the murder of his favorite teacher.
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THE NAGASAKI VECTOR (Del Rey Books, 1983)
Is a culture with an absolute regard for individual rights really
helpless against those who would destroy it? Professional time
traveler Bernie Gruenblum hires detective Win Bear to track down the
stolen flying saucer ... who loves him.
Available from CD-Baby as an audiobook read by radio talk show
host Brian M. Wilson
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STAR WARS: LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU
(Del Rey Books, 1983)
STAR WARS: LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON
(Del Rey Books, 1983)
STAR WARS: LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE STARCAVE OF THONBOKA
(Del Rey Books, 1983)
Youthful adventures of Star Wars' famous gambler before Han Solo
won the Millenium Falcon from him. Re-released in omnibus edition,
STAR WARS: THE LANDO CALRISSIAN ADVENTURES, Del Rey Books, 1994.
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TOM PAINE MARU (Del Rey, 1984—Phoenix Pick, 2009)
The North American Confederacy reaches the stars at last, its
Prime Directive: search out governments wherever they are found to
exist—and destroy them!
The Phoenix Pick edition contains a discussion—cut from Del Rey
version—of the origin of the authoritarian personality.
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THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE (Del Rey Books, 1985)
Detective Win Bear travels back in time to 1794 to save Albert
Gallatin, founder of the North American Confederacy, from assassins.
First appearance in print of the author's "Covenant of Unanimous
Consent".
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THE WARDOVE (Berkley-Ace, 1986)
Earth was destroyed in 2023 and only Lunar colonists survived.
Nine hundred years later, in a star-spanning "nation" without
conscription or taxation, Captain Nathaniel Blackburn of Coordinated
Arm Intelligence must find out who's killing rock musicians (loosely
based on Fleetwood Mac and The Police) raising money for the War
Against the murderous Clusterian Powers. A story of unrequited love.
Includes lyrics to a dozen songs written by the author. Beware of
unauthorized trade paperback editions.
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THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE (Tor, 1986—Phoenix Pick, 2009)
Muslims rule the world in this adventure of a sword-slinging
inventor and gunsmith in an alternate universe where the Black Plague
killed 999 out of 1000, and technology—especially firearms—took
the blame.
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BRIGHTSUIT MACBEAR (Avon, 1988)
On Majesty, a planet covered from pole-to-pole, with jungle six
miles deep, Win Bear's great-grandson MacDougall battles to prevent a
terrible crime and recover a lost inheritance. Set in the universe of
Tom Paine Maru.
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TAFLAK LYSANDRA (Avon, 1988)
The first of six projected sequels to Brightsuit MacBear: testing
a marvelous "subfoline" craft, young Elsie Nahuatl (last seen in Tom
Paine Maru) becomes lost amidst the bizarre collectivist cultures
which lurk beneath the planet Majesty's "Sea of Leaves" with her
adopted father—a cybernetically-enhanced coyote.
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HENRY MARTYN (Tor Books, 1989)
A thousand years from now, in the depths of interstellar space,
there will be sailing ships—and pirates! Vast empires clash as
young Arran Islay fights for freedom, and to regain a legacy brutally
stripped from his family by the "Black Usurper".
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PALLAS (Tor Books, 1991—Phoenix Pick, 2010)
In the persons of Gibson Altman, exiled liberal United States
Senator, and Emerson Ngu,a young Vietnamese/Cambodian immigrant boy
who aspires to manufacture firearms, socialist "East America" and
frontier entrepreneurs of the West American "Jackelope Republic" under
the notorious "Stein Covevnant" of self-government struggle for
control of a whole new world, the second largest of the asteroids.
Lots of action, romance, RKBA polemics, plus metallic silhouette
shooting!
Winner of the 1994 Prometheus Award.
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BRETTA MARTYN (Tor Books, 1996)
Fifteen years after her father Arran's adventures (Henry Martyn)
Robretta Islay sails to the stars to expose the source of Oplyte
slavery and stamp it out. Along the way she travels across half a
galaxy, faces hideous perils, suffers grievously, meets many wild and
wonderful characters, and eventually rediscovers the homeworld of the
human race. (Also a sequel to The WarDove.)
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THE MITZVAH (with Aaron Zelman, Mazel Freedom Press, 1999).
A Roman Catholic monsignor from Chicago discovers that he's
actually a Jewish Holocaust orphan and must decide, not only between
the faith he was brought up in and the faith he was born to, but
between his liberal pacifist beliefs and those of his real family,
many of whom joined the Resistance and fought and killed Nazis.
Winner of Free-Market.net's Freedom Book of the Month Award for
July, 1999. Co-author, the late Aaron Zelman, was the founder and
executive director of JPFO: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms
Ownership.
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FORGE OF THE ELDERS (Baen Books, 2000)
When most nations rejected Marxism in the 1990s, the Berlin Wall
fell, and the Soviet Empire collapsed, the United States embraced
Marxism wholeheartedly and dragged the whole world back down into the
pit of collectivism. Now the American Soviet Socialist Republic claims
the asteroid 5023 Eris, but somebody (or something) is already there!
The Elders are from Earth ... sort of. They aren't human. But they're
individualists—and capitalists!
Winner of Free-Market.net's Freedom Book of the Month Award for
May 2000, Freedom Book of the Year Award 2000, and the 2001 Prometheus
Award. Originally published in 1990 as CONTACT AND COMMUNE and
CONVERSE AND CONFLICT by Warner Books, who unilaterally cancelled the
third volume, CONCERT AND COSMOS) Now issued as the single epic work
it was always meant to be.
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HOPE (W/Aaron Zelman, Mazel Freedom Press, 2001—Phoenix Pick, 2009)
A story filled with political struggle, attempted assassination,
adventure, and romance: Vietnam War veteran, retired billionaire, and
history professor Alexander Hope, "accidentally" elected President of
the United States in 2008, begins to enforce the Bill of Rights as if
it were the highest law of the land that it is.
A loose sequel to The Mitzvah, with Aaron Zelman. Winner of
Free-Market.net's Freedom Book of the Month Award for August, 2001.
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THE AMERICAN ZONE (Tor Books, November, 2001)
Terrorists try to force a government to form in the North American
Confederacy. Detective Win Bear (hero of The Probability Broach, et
al.), his wife Clarissa, and his friends Lucy Kropotkin and Will
Sanders stalk the badguys through a self-isolated community of fresh
(and frightened) immigrants to the first free country they've ever
known.
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LEVER ACTION (Mountain Media, 2001)
Non-Fiction. Twenty years of speeches, articles, and internet
columns from the author of The Probability Broach, Forge of the
Elders, Pallas, and (with Aaron Zelman) The Mitzvah and Hope.
Published just before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Winner of Free-Market.net's Freedom Book of the Month Award for
May 2001.
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THE PROBABILITY BROACH: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
(BigHeadPress.com, 2004)
L. Neil Smith's first book, adapted as a 180-page, full color
graphic novel, visually realized by Scott Bieser, late summer, 2004.
Also a Prometheus Award-winning webcomic available at
www.BigHeadPress.com or Amazon.com
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ROSWELL, TEXAS (BigHeadPress.com., 2008)
In 1947, in an alternate version of the Lone Star Republic that
was never a part of the United States (and where Richard Wagner and
Scott Joplin teamed up in the east Texas city of New Orleans to write
the epic opera, Die Alamo) an unlikely trio of Texas Rangers races
against time and foreign enemies to claim the wreckage of an unknown
spacecraft near the west Texas town of Roswell. Co-written by Rex
"Baloo" May. Brilliantly illustrated by Scott Bieser, et al.
See the webcomic at www.BigHeadPress.com
Buy the graphic novel at Amazon.com
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TIMEPEEPER (BigHeadPress.com, 2009)
"In the years of the Great Moratorium", when new legislation is
forbidden, and old laws can only be repealed, three teenagers in the
late 21st century steal a small, remote-controlled time machine, lose
it in the past, and must retrieve it before they're caught. Fancifully
illustrated by Sherard Jackson.
Now a webcomic at www.BigHeadPress.com, and a graphic novel at
Amazon.com.
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CERES (Phoenix Pick, December, 2010)
Half a century after the events recounted in Pallas, the
grandchildren of Emerson Ngu face their own challenges, terraforming
the largest of the asteroids, protecting the solar system's Settled
Worlds from "extinction level events" (like the one that killed the
dinosaurs), and simply living their own lives in the early 22nd
century. While her asteroid-mining brother fights space pirates, Llyra
Ngu, a young athlete born on Pallas, struggles grimly to perform in
the higher gravity of Ceres, Earth's moon, Mars, and Earth itself.
Nominated for the Prometheus Award
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PHOEBUS KRUMM (BigHeadPress.com, 2010)
A beautiful Empress calls an old space pirate out of retirement to
hunt down and destroy a massive enemy super-ship that threatens the
civilized galaxy. (A web-comic and graphic novel, part of the Henry
Martyn cycle)
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SWEETER THAN WINE (Phoenix Pick, July 2011)
A young American soldier, bitten in World War II France by a
beautiful, seductive Rumanian Resistance pilot—who happens to be a
vampire—now works as a private detective near Denver, and tries to
live an ethical life. He wonders what became of his lost love, and
eventually confronts a vampire so old that it first fed on Neanderthal
Man.
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DOWN WITH POWER (Phoenix Pick, 2012)
Non-Fiction. A comprehensive guidebook of libertarian policy
positions, rather than theory, written by a 50-year veteran of the
movement.
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[ To view larger scans of these book covers go to
this place—Editor ]
"IN THE WORKS"
BLADE OF P'NA
P'Nan moral debt assessor Eichra Oren and his trusty sidekick Sam
(an enhanced Samoyed dog) are hired to investigate industrial sabotage
on an alternate Earth ruled by giant molluscs, and stumble across a
hideous murder—and an alien invasion! (AQ new part of the Forge of
the Elders cycle)
ARES
The seventh unsuccessful expedition of would-be Martian colonists,
stranded and abandoned on the Red Planet by the government of East
America and the United Nations, are saved by William and Brody, the
sons of Emerson Ngu, who show them a new way to terraform a planet in
the face of violent opposition from Earth. Principally features Llyra
Ngu's grandmother, Julie Segovia, as a young East American Marine
lieutenant, sent to Mars to punish recalcitrant colonists. (Fits
between Pallas and Ceres.)
SMARTBAIT (With Rex "Baloo" May)
Centuries after the human race has become extinct, a species of
intelligent crickets are building their own civilization on the ruins
of ours, and mounting an expedition to discover why the Gods (that's
us) created them, and where we disappeared to, afterward.
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
The asteroid survey vessel Rosalie Frazier discovers evidence of
a horrifying crime committed by the government of East America almost
a century ago, and an old, sick man without hope rediscovers his
youth, adventure, and the love of the most beautiful girl in the Solar
System. (Follows and is contemporary with Ceres.)
ROSALIE
A grown-up Llyra Ngu Trask travels with her husband and children
to Rosalie, the beautiful extrasolar planet discovered by her great
grandfather Emerson during the Fifth Force expedition and named for
her great grandmother. Adventures and a new life on a pristine world
in something resembling the Pleistocene Era. Concludes the Ngu Family
Saga.
REHAB
Comedy movie treatment about California, the movies, and sweet
surrender in the War on Drugs.
L. Neil Smith is the Publisher and Senior Columnist of L. Neil
Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE, as well as the author of 33
freedom-oriented books,
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