@booklet {6295, title = {Hope}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, publisher = {Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor}, address = {Rockville, MD}, abstract = {

Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) and L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {5690, title = {"The Lone and Level Sands"}, howpublished = {Future Washington}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {165-85}, publisher = {Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA)}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

Libertarian eutopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)}, editor = {Ernest Lilley} } @booklet {10835, title = {The American Zone}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)}, editor = {James Frenkel} } @booklet {5144, title = {Forge of the Elders}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Baen}, address = {Riverdale, NY}, abstract = {

Standard libertarian analysis of dystopian collectivism and eutopian capitalism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {4474, title = {Pallas}, year = {1993}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1995. 447 pp.; and Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2011. 324 pp.\ 

}, month = {1993}, pages = {447 pp.}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Having escaped from a prison planet, a man creates a libertarian eutopia on a terraformed asteroid which is contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia. First in a planned four volume series, known as the Ngu Family Saga, with the second volume being\ Ceres\ (Published online on his website one chapter each week beginning March 23,2009. There are 45 chapter and an Epilogue). It was then published as a paperback. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. The third volumes, Ares, has not been published. This volume follows the further adventures of main protagonists of\ Pallas.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780312097059 0-812-50904-8 9781604504750}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {4181, title = {Contact and Commune}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {Popular Library}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alien contact with libertarian themes.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {9655, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Embarrassment Box{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Libertarian}, volume = {4.20 \& 5.9\&10 (no. 187) }, year = {1990}, month = {[1990]}, pages = {6-11}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future where White House II, a replica, in Cody, Wyoming is presided over an incompetent, doddering man who inherited the presidency from his father and grandfather. In this future tobacco illegal but cannabis legal, and there are no wheeled vehicles. The development of \“placers,\” or instant transportation booths means the people are free to move from place to place and time to time as they choose, thus undermining any government authority. Part of the author\’s long series of libertarian eutopias and dystopias.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {4097, title = {"The Spirit of Exmas Sideways"}, howpublished = {Alternatives}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, pages = {69-120, with an introductory note on 71-72}, publisher = {Baen}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)}, editor = {Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams} } @booklet {3312, title = {The Venus Belt}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 163 pp.

}, month = {1981}, pages = {211 pp.}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The libertarian eutopia of Smith\’s 1980 The Probability Broach is threatened by an authoritarian dystopia. Second in the North American Confederacy series, followed, in publication order, by Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. A story set in the same future is his 1989 \“The Spirit of Exmas Sideways.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {0-343-28721-5 9781604504422}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {8808, title = {The Probability Broach}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rev. ed. [the author\’s website calls it the \“unexpurgated\” edition]. New York: Tor, 1996. 305 pp. Rpt. New York: Orb, 2001. 317 pp. See also Smith and Scott Bieser, illustrator. The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel. Round Rock, TX: Big Head Press, 2004. 185 pp.\ 

}, month = {1980}, pages = {275 pp.}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel begins in a U. S. where the government is systematically limiting individual rights, but it then moves into an alternative history eutopia set in a libertarian North American Confederacy and is the first volume of a loosely connected series set in the Confederacy. A story set in the same future is his \“The Spirit of Exmas Sideways\” (1989).\ In publication order, the volumes, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. The novel won the 1982 Prometheus Prize of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780345285935 Rev. ed. 9780812538755 Graphic Novel 9780974381411}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} }