[net.sf-lovers] Libertarian SF?

sullivan@cmcl2.UUCP (06/07/83)

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cmcl2!sullivan    Jun  7 11:11:00 1983

Can people give me pointers to sf books with a Libertarian slant?  And
don't assume that I have read any of `the standard ones', because it is
just possible that I haven't.

Thanks!
David Sullivan
New York University
...!floyd!cmcl2!sullivan

nrh@inmet.UUCP (06/10/83)

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inmet!nrh    Jun  9 13:26:00 1983

Some Libertarian SF:

	By L. Neil Smith:

			The Probability Broach
			The Venus Belt
			The Nagasaki Vector

		

	By J. Neil Schulman:

			Alongside Night

	F. Paul Wilson:

			Healer
			Wheels within Wheels

Heiny.Henr@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (06/13/83)

Stuff by Robert Anton Wilson covers some interesting (although not
orthodox) libertarian attitudes.  Books of his that I can think of
offhand:
	ILLUMINATUS! done w/Robert Shea (actually 3 books: The Eye In the
Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan)
	Masks of the Illuminati
	The Cosmic Trigger
	Schroedinger's Cat (3 books: The Universe Next Door, The Homing
Pigeons, The Trick Top Hat)
	The Illuminati Papers (not really SF, but a collection of his essays)

There is disagreement as to whether Wilson is really a libertarian (one
person I know calls him a 'pinko hippie drug freak', and means it).
Even if he isn't, some of his characters are.

					Chris

cjh@CCA-UNIX@csin.UUCP (06/14/83)

In response to your message of Tue Jun  7 11:11:45 1983:

   Anything by F. Paul Wilson, although he tends to cast stereotypical
statists as villains in extremely improbably situations.
   L. Neil Smith's THE PROBABILITY BROACH and THE VENUS BELT---fast action.
HER MAJESTY'S BUCKETEERS probably too, although I couldn't get more than a
few pages into it.
   J. Neil Shulman, ALONGSIDE OF NIGHT---best of the lot.

   Note that there is an award ("Prometheus"---x$ in gold) given to what is
judged the best libertarian SF of the year. David Friedman (son of the
Chicago economist and a rising L econ. himself) suggested that they should
consider literary merit as well as political purity, in which case
MERCHANTER'S LUCK would be a shoo-in (his opinion).