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Books by L. Neil Smith
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Lever Action: Essays on Liberty
by L. Neil Smith
| Here is Neil's very personal non-fiction book which he describes:
You'll read "The American Lenin", a warm, fuzzy, loveable little article about Abraham Lincoln that for some reason never fails to start an international flame-war, whenever it's reposted on the internet.
You'll learn the horrible -- and hilarious -- fate that befell my junior high school principal, the very first "bedwetting liberal" I ever met.
You'll see what I did to Canada's leading political magazine when that scruffy little rag made the stupid mistake of calling me a racist.
You'll find out why I believe that science fiction may be a dying art -- and what can still be done about it.
And you'll remember, with me, what the great Robert A. Heinlein meant -- and continues to mean -- to all of us.
Along the way, LEVER ACTION will offer you my views on victim disarmament (I coined the term "Vermont Carry"), Ruby Ridge and Waco, Feinstein and Schumer, Republicans in general, smoking, Bill of Rights enforcement, social (and other sorts of) Darwinism, how I predicted the collapse of the Soviet Empire, why I knew that Y2K would never amount to anything, what it will take to make America fulfill its promise, and why I hate fast-food breakfasts.
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The Probability Broach
by L. Neil Smith
| In a deadly conflict with murderous federal agents, Denver homicide detective Win Bear is accidentally blown "sideways" in time, into the North American Confederacy, where the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded in 1794, and government has grown less powerful ever since.
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The American Zone
by L. Neil Smith
| "It begins with the second most horrible prediction I've ever made," Neil says, "the destruction of a mile-tall building in Greater LaPorte by those whom many today are inclined to call "terrorists". The death toll is in four figures. (My most horrible prediction, in The Probability Broach, was that to deter the Chinese, Russians used nuclear weapons to put a crack in the Moon visible from Earth.)
"Other disasters follow, and "the usual suspects" demand security measures that are completely alien to the North American Confederacy: a strong central government, an end to crossworld immigration and expulsion of recent newcomers, taxation, victim disarmament, even a compulsory identification system.
"Sound familiar?
"Well it ought to. What won't sound familiar is the way our hero, former homicide detective Win Bear, his wife Clarissa, and their pals Lucy Kropotkin and Will Sanders track down the villains and deal with them, based on the individuality of everyone concerned. And unlike the collectivist methods being proposed against those responsible for what happened at the World Trade Center on September 11, it will work.
"Collectivist methods will not. The U.S. government clearly learned nothing from the humiliation of the Russians in Afghanistan, from that of Americans in Vietnam, from Pershing's embarrassment by Pancho Villa in Mexico, or from our successes against the equally stupid British government in the Revolution and the War of 1812."
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The Mitzvah
by L. Neil Smith, with Aaron Zelman
| When John Greenwood, a Catholic priest from Chicago -- and a liberal "child of the 60s" -- suddenly learns that he's a Jewish Holocaust orphan, he asks desperately, what does that make him? Is he Catholic or Jewish? American or German? Who's right, his pacifist mentors, or his newfound family, some of whom died fighting Hitler? Do his liberal beliefs encourage freedom or slavery? Is the real agenda of the United Nations to destroy the Bill of Rights?
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Forge Of The Elders
by L. Neil Smith
| Just when the 21st century thought it was safe to throw Marxism on the ash heap of history once and for all, a worldwide economic collapse suddenly made freedom seem less desirable than security, and the Total State turned out to be the comeback kid. In the US, where the power elite had long shown heartfelt affection for collectivism and making the trains (nationalized, of course) run on time, communism had a second coming.
Which meant that Earth was now the Red Planet. The few holdouts and counterrevolutionaries would be dealt with in good time.
Of course, collectivization only made the worldwide depression worse. But then the People’s Astronomers noticed an asteroid with unusual spectrographic properties, seemingly a treasure trove of valuable minerals that might rejuvenate the Earth’s economy. So three aged NASA shuttles were pulled out of mothballs. crewed by a team of handpicked misfits whom no one would miss, and sent to the asteroid.
However, someone else was there first, under an airtight canopy made by genetically engineered trees. And they weren’t human, even if they were from Earth. The Elders were “nautiloids,” like intelligent giant squids in Volkswagen-sized shells, from a parallel universe where they were Earth’s dominant species. Worst of all, they were CAPITALISTS!
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Bretta Martyn
by L. Neil Smith
"A thousand years from now, in the cold depths of interstellar space, there will be sailing ships -- and pirates!"
Neil says about this book he also says his is best, so-far.
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