Healer
Title | Healer |
Year for Search | 1976 |
Authors | Wilson, F[rancis] Paul(b. 1946) |
Tertiary Authors | Wilson, F. Paul |
Pagination | 183 pp. |
Date Published | 1976 |
Publisher | Doubleday & Co |
Place Published | Garden City, NY |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | 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. |
Additional Publishers | 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. |
Info Notes | 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. |
Holding Institutions | Merril, O |
Author Note | The author (b. 1946) holds a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. |
Full Text | 1976 Wilson, F[rancis] Paul (b. 1946). Healer. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 183 pp. 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. Merril, O, PSt 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. The author holds a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. |