[Group523] SOME SIMPLE SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS

[L. Neil Smith]

SOME SIMPLE SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS

 From L. Neil Smith <mailto:lneil at netzero.com>

Attribute to _The Libertarian Enterprise_


    I'm a bit late getting to this, having just finished the script
for my fourth and latest webcomic, _Phoebus Krumm_, a sequel to _Henry
Martyn_, _Bretta Martyn_, and _The WarDove_. Unfortunately, it takes a
lot longer to draw these things than to write them, so you may not
start seeing the story at www.BigHeadPress.com until this time next
year.

    In the meantime, and especially with the holidays bearing down on
us, here are some unique -- and inexpensive -- items you may want to
consider, for yourself if nobody else, not one of which requires
batteries!

    _Forge of the Elders_, of my own works, probably my favorite, and
possibly the largest-scale alternative history novel ever undertaken.
_Forge_ features three different mysteries, three love stories, an
organically terraformed asteroid, dozens of sapient species -- all of
them evolved on Earth -- and the foundation for a whole new ethical
system.

    _Forge of the Elders_ is available at www.Amazon.com

    _The Probability Broach_, the original text version of my first
novel, fully restored, and still in print after almost 30 years. An
adventure widely regarded as the "definitive" novel of the libertarian
movement, _Broach_ is chock full of sex, guns, hot cars (without
wheels), and sapient simians and cetaceans for those who don't care
about politics.

    _The Probability Broach_ is also available at www.Amazon.com

    _The Probability Broach: the Graphic Novel_, adapted by yours
truly, brilliantly illustrated -- 185 pages in vibrant color -- by the
fantastic Scott Bieser, and setting new trends in the comic book
publishing industry.

    Go to Big Head Press at http://www.bigheadpress.com

    _Roswell, Texas_, a graphic novel, story by L. Neil Smith and the
sage and surreal Rex F. "Baloo" May, lavishly illustrated by the
lovely and talented Scott Bieser. 200 pages of hilarious, rip-roaring
adventure packed with cars, planes, guns, and beautiful girls in an
historically alternative Lone Star Republic.

    Again, go to Big Head Press at http://www.bigheadpress.com

    _Tom Paine Maru_, my original epic novel of the great starships of
the Galactic Confederacy, now presented in "the way the author meant
it to be read". A truly high-quality product from a new (to me)
publisher I'm really enjoying working with.

    Go to Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick at http://www.phoenixpick.com/

    _Hope_ a novel of the first libertarian president, by Aaron Zelman
and L. Neil Smith. Political adventure, plenty of gunplay, and just a
little romance -- your guide to what _ought_ to be happening over the
next eight years. Read it, give it to your friends, inflict it on your
enemies.

    Go to Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick at http://www.phoenixpick.com/

    I want to take this opportunity to pay a moral debt I've owed for
a long time. My esteemed comrade Dr. Sean Gabb _is_ libertarianism in
England, and he carries a heavy load in that vile socialist police
state (as opposed to _our_ vile socialist police state). Somewhere in
all of that, he found time, a few years ago, to write the richest,
most interesting, and entertaining novel I've read in the last couple
of decades. _The Column of Phocas_ is a murder mystery set in the
shadow of a fallen Rome.

    I've been promising to review _The Column of Phocas_ literally for
years and never have. I feel guilty every time I think about it, not
only for slighting Sean, but for depriving his potential readers of a
wonderful, absolutely unique experience. Run, do not walk to his
website.

    Go to: http://www.candidlist.demon.co.uk/hampden/phocas.htm

    LAST BUT FAR FROM LEAST! I have recently joined with Rex F. May
(co-author of _Roswell, Texas_ and the cartoonist you probably know as
"Baloo") to produce a line of bumper stickers, T-shirts, coffee mugs
and similar items featuring short, pithy observations meant to bring a
little sanity back to everyday life. Imagine a sketch of the Earth and
the words, "IT'S NOT YOUR MOTHER. IT'S JUST A BIG ROCK". Rex has some
peachy stuff of his own there, too.

    To learn more go to: http://www.zazzle.com/rexfmay/gifts

Wishing you all the best for the holidays and the year to come,

L. Neil Smith
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Earth: "It's not your mother. It's just a big rock." -- L. Neil Smith
http://www.zazzle.com/rexfmay/gifts 

The Webley Page
http://www.lneilsmith.org

The Libertarian Enterprise
http://www.ncc-1776.org

LNS at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/lneilsmith.htm

Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick
http://www.phoenixpick.com/

Big Head Press
http://www.bigheadpress.com


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