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Number 676, June 24, 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
by L. Neil Smith

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EDITORIAL MATTERS:

This week's "Huh?" goes to a book review at Laissez Faire Books called "Capitalists Who Fear Change" by Jeffrey Tucker:

Digital technology is reinventing our whole world, in service of you and me. It's free enterprise on steroids. It's bypassing the gatekeepers and empowering each of us to invent our own civilization for ourselves, according to our own specifications.

The promise of the future is nothing short of spectacular—provided that those who lack the imagination to see the potential here don't get their way. Sadly but predictably, some of the biggest barriers to a bright future are capitalists themselves who fear the future.
[source]

Now, of course, most of these so-called "Capitalists" might better be called "Mercantilists", but see Adam Smith for more about that.

Ken Holder
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Where No Libertarian Has Gone Before
by L. Neil Smith
But there's a particle of truth here, too. The same period of 19 or 29 years has, in fact, been marked by shrinking rack space in grocery stores and drugstores for genuine science fiction—rack space incongruously occupied instead by offerings featuring dragons, dwarves, or enchanted swords on their covers. Where I differ with editors and agents—to whom I've vainly tried communicating this point for every one of those 19 or 29 years—is in my belief that genuine science fiction is dying from self-inflicted injuries. Furthermore, I believe I'm uniquely qualified to pontificate on the subject; in many respects, I'm one of the few individuals left, in the whole wide world, actually writing the stuff; which is to say, still writing genuine science fiction.
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When We Say "Immigrants," We Really Mean Mexicans
by Jonathan David Morris
Last Friday night, I found myself unexpectedly sucked in by ABC's broadcast of Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls from America into Canada. At the end of his journey, as part of a made-for-TV stunt within a made-for-TV stunt (I guess that would make it a meta-made-for-TV stunt), Wallenda was greeted by two friendly Canadian guards, who welcomed him to the country and asked him for his passport. Wallenda joked that he'd have to go back for it, then produced the requested document wrapped in a piece of plastic. Even if he hadn't done this, my guess is Canada would've let him in—not just because the stunt was coordinated by both countries, but because, when it comes to immigration, America and Canada don't care.
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Final Straw
by A.X. Perez
President Obama has invoked executive privilege to support his buddy Eric Holder's refusal to turn over documents regarding Fast and Furious to the House Oversight Committee. He is now fully in the controversy and is supporting the Department of Justice in its cover up (AG Holder isn't the only one involved) of its behavior in Operation Fast And Furious. If you google "obama fast and furious documents june 20 2012" you will get an eye full. Even the mainstream press will not be able to walk away from this.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 182
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 182 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


Down With Power front cover
Down With Power
by L. Neil Smith
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The Probability Broach
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Lever Action
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Sweeter Than Wine
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The American Zone
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Pallas
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Roswell, Texas
by L. Neil Smith and Rex F. May
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