Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

Or your grandchildren? Do you lament the lack of good stories and adventures like they had when you were a kid? There’s a reason for that: modern, politically correct theories among publishers and “educators”.

Or maybe the kids don’t read at all. In the words of Ghostbusters’ Egon Spengler, “Print is dead.” I hope that’s not true, because if it is, that means our civilization is next.

When I was very young, no more than five or six years old, my mother read Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe to me, going slow and explaining the hard parts and archaic language as we went along. Her mother had been a one-room country school-teacher, and I guess Mom had picked up the habits. Hearing that book probably set me on the path I’ve followed ever since. She read others to me, but that’s the one I remember best.

I guess this is really kind of a commercial—or shameless self-promotion. I’m writing this to suggest that you buy my books for your kids—or grand-kids—to read (it’s cheaper than most movies nowadays), or that you read to them, yourself. There are more than thirty of them at this point. This link http://www.ncc-1776.org/books-so-far.html will take you to a list of them, with brief descriptions and tell you where to find them. My books are bright, positive, full of ideas and interesting characters. They have definite good-guys, unmistakable bad-guys, and they’re always about individual liberty and courage, one way or another.

Occasionally I brush across grown-up topics, but in a way kids can appreciate and absorb. They have to learn sometime, and I am the gentlest of teachers. I don’t impose the trendy crap on them that public schools do. For example, my first book is unquestionably science fiction, but it’s about George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Albert Gallatin, and the Whiskey Rebellion.

If you and your youngsters like my stories and adventures, if you’d like to encourage me to write more—I have a thousand ideas—you might become a patron of my work on Patreon.com. Just go to the site and they’ll tell you how. I do have a family to feed and a mortgage to raise, and I appreciate the help.