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Number 672, May 27, 2012
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Down With Power
by L. Neil Smith
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.
The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith

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Sweeter Than Wine
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EDITORIAL MATTERS:

I don't know about where you live, but where I live the wind is blowing like something out of a J.G. Ballard disaster story. Well, okay maybe not that bad, but blowing enough to annoy.

It turns out that most people think taxation is theft:

Sociologists' Research Study Finds Everyday Tax Talk Is 'Morally Charged'

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) — As U.S. presidential election campaigns heat up, candidates can expect an earful of complaints over taxes. Now a new study led by a Northern Illinois University sociologist argues that American middle-class hostilities toward the federal income tax follow a common discourse rooted in moral beliefs.
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Letters to the Editor
from Richard Bartucci, Jonathan David Morris, Bill St. Clair, "Bill Sawyer", Sean Gabb, Pam Maltzman, and A.X. Perez
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Ares: A Synopsis
by L. Neil Smith
This is the story that will be told at much greater length in the novel I am working on right now, Ares. It is a part of the "Ngu Family Saga" which presently consists of Pallas and Ceres. This novel, named for the Greek equivalent of Mars, fits chronologically between the two other books.
WARNING: there are spoilers in this treatment, so if you want to be surprised when the book comes out, you might want to give this synopsis a miss. I find it interesting and enjoyed writing it, years ago. It is an example of an artform in and of itself, in the words of a former agent of mine, that the public generally doesn't know about.

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Reading Room: Vampire Planet?
by Ken Holder
Book review.
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Who Will Build the Syntax?
by Jim Davidson
Who is in charge of the English language? There is an academy of the Arabic language. There is a state language and letters committee for the Mandarin Chinese language in the People's Republic of China; Taiwan,Singapore, and Malaysia each has its own language academy. There is aDanish language board. The French Academy is in charge of the Frenchlanguage. There is a council for German orthography. Portuguese, Spanish, and about ninety other languages have language regulators. Russian had an academy until 1841, which went away, presumably in some austerity measure, but was resurrected in 1944.
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Reading Room: Bargaining Position
by Ken Holder
Another book review
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Article 2 of the Bill of Rights Series. "The First Amendment"
by Neale Osborn
The following is the third article co-written by Myself (Neale Osborn) and Lee Norton. Remember, neither of us claim to be Constitutional scholars or lawyers. As promised: First, we present the 1st Amendment, then we shall disect it.
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To Kill an American
An Australian View of the United States

Written by an Australian Dentist
Oops, apparently this was first posted not by an Australian Dentist but by Peter Ferrara, an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law, on September 25, 2001 9:20 a.m. at National Review Online These things frequently get forwarded and reforwarded and proper attribution gets lost. Looks like that has happened again. Sorry about that.
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No Tape
by Jim Davidson
So, at last, you seem to say,
The system unbroken was designed this way.

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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 178
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 178 of a weekly cartoon series.
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.

The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith


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Down With Power
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The Probability Broach
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Lever Action
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The American Zone
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Ceres
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Pallas
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