[Group523] This Week in _The Libertarian Enterprise_

[L. Neil Smith]

"CAMBODIAN ROAD TRIP"

Does Obama Know What He's Doing To The Economy?

by L. Neil Smith

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle510-20090315-02.html

ANNOUNCEMENT

L. Neil Smith's epic novel _Ceres_ began serialization yesterday at the 
Big Head Press website at www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?page_id=53.

_Ceres_ is a freestanding sequel to _Pallas_, the story of a teenage 
brother and sister, born and raised on the terraformed asteroid Pallas, 
great-grandchildren of pioneer Emerson Ngu.

Wilson Ngu, 17, wants to be an asteroid hunter. He also has an Internet 
girlfriend at the other end of the Solar System he's deeply longing to 
meet in the flesh. At his age, in the pioneer culture of the 
asteroids—he's considered an adult, and he holds an adult job, helping 
to survey Ceres, largest of the asteroids, for terraforming, under the 
supervision of his engineer father, Adam Ngu.

Llyra Ngu, 13 when we first see her, is the only figure skater on Pallas 
(hockey being extremely popular in the asteroids) but she wants 
desperately to skate—and compete at it—on Earth. Trouble is, that's 
twenty times the gravity she grew up in, and she could be seriously 
injured or killed in the attempt to fulfill her fondest dream.

Together with 19-year-old coach and companion, lovely Jasmeen Khalidov, 
the daughter of Martian colonists, Llyra hops from world to world—and 
from gravity well to gravity well—training for months or years at a time 
until the day her body can withstand skating on Earth. Along the way, 
the two girls have many adventures, including the hijacking of their 
commercial spaceliner by ecoterrorists.

Those are only two of the many stories, and three among dozens of 
characters you'll find and love—or hate—in _Ceres_. Neil says it's his 
very best and favorite. Read it one chapter a week at 
www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?page_id=53 and discuss it on Neil's 
blog there.

It will be followed by _Ares_ and _Beautiful Dreamer_.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

_Atlantea the Beautiful_

By L. Neil Smith and Rex May

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle510-20090315-12.html

Enjoy!

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