TY - ABST T1 - Masque Y1 - 1998 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) A1 - Matthew J[ohn] Costello (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Far future warring corporations.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dydeetown World Y1 - 1989 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia with very strict population control. People are generally illiterate. A volume in a series set in the so-called LaNague Federation; see his Healer (1976). Three non-utopian sequels are “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971): 149-64]; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307)[originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-45]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material.

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Parts were previously published as "Kids." New Destinies 7 (Spring 1989). Ed. Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1989), 229-87; and "Dydeetown Girl." Far Frontiers 4 (Winter 1985). Ed. Jerry Pournelle [Eugene] and Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1985), 9-69. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Be Fruitful and Multiply" Y1 - 1982 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) ED - Alan Ryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical religious dystopia centered on the only church, the Church of the Divine Imperative, which is the title of the story.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Healer Y1 - 1976 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The central volume of the author’s series the LaNague Chronicles. Mostly science fiction adventure, but it includes a “neo-anarchist” eutopia, more accurately a libertarian eutopia with “a bare minimum of public institutions: police, judiciary, penal, and administration” (79). In the author’s introduction to The LaNague Chronicles. Ed. and sequenced by the author. New York: Baen Books, 1992, he says that his ideas were inspired by Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973), the Austrian economist who lived and worked in the U. S. from 1940 and Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), a U. S. member of the Austrian School of economics and one of the founders of the von Mises Institute, or, as Wilson puts it, “a rational anarchist, an advocate of laissez fire, a radical capitalist” (viii). In the introduction, he characterizes the LaNague Federation as encouraging “any type of society, no matter how bizarre or crazy the philosophy at its core. . . . With a single proviso: free egress must exist at all times. Anyone who wants to opt out of that society must be allowed to do so” (viii-ix). Other volumes in the series include: “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971)]: 149-64; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307) [originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-145]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. See also is 1989 Dydeetown World, which is connected to the series. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material. The LaNague Chronicles sequences the series as An Enemy of the State, Healer I: Heal Thyself, Healer II: Heal Thy Neighbor, Healer III: Hide Thyself, Wheels Within Wheels, Healer IV: Find They Progeny, Healer V: Heal They Nation, and the text in the book is in this order. “The Complete LaNague Chronology” is provided on page xi. Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society. Both Healer and An Enemy of the State were elected by the Libertarian Futurist Society to the Promethean Hall of Fame.

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Rpt. Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001; and Akron, OH: Infrapress, 2005. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. Part was published as “Pard” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 90.4 (December 1972): 137-67. Rpt. in his The Tery (New York: Baen Books, 1990), 191-246.

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