The Editor’s Notes
L. Neil Smith (1946-2021)
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Letters to the Editor
from Edwin Smith and Sean Gabb
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L. Neil Smith Obituary
by Rylla Smith
Lester Neil Smith III, novelist and political commentator, gunsmith and musician, visionary and futurist, passed away on Friday, August 27th at Poudre Valley Hospital after a lengthy battle with heart and kidney disease. He was 75 years old.
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Sleep Well, Space Cowboy
by Rylla Cathryn Smith
How am I supposed to tell you who my father was? If you’re reading this, then you probably already know of his career, of his politics, and of his steadfast defense of individual liberty.
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Goodbye, My Friend
by Sarah A. Hoyt
I’ve been away from the net. Today, first time I connected to the internet in the new house, I found out that L. Neil Smith had died. This is not how I wanted to start the week…
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Missing Our Friend
by Jim Davidson
My first encounter with L. Neil Smith was about 1980. I don't remember exactly, but I was in downtown Lawrence, Kansas at Adventure: a Bookstore which always had a good selection of paperback science fiction novels. There was a book I had not read, by an author of whom I had no knowledge. It looked really good, so I bought it. It was, of course, The Probability Broach. It changed my life.
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Neil
by Jim Woosley
I ran across a book with a particularly memorable cover—a well dressed gorilla, standing at a podium, holding the gavel at a meeting of persons mostly otherwise human.
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Vaya con Dios, my friend
by A.X. Perez
I started reading L. Neil Smith's books back in the late Eighties or so. Somewhere along the line I began reading his blogs and other internet postings, and eventually began reading TLE. I began corresponding with him when I wrote to wish him well as he recovered from a broken foot.
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