The Crystal Empire
by L. Neil Smith
Price: $9.99 USD. 124460 words.
Published by Phoenix Pick on April 17, 2010. Fiction.
Little is known about the Crystal Empire, which spans most of western America. But it is the most powerful force surviving on Earth and its might is unchallenged
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L. Neil Smith
Biography
L. Neil Smith (full name Lester Neil Smith III), also known to readers and fans as El Neil,[citation needed] is a Libertarian science fiction author and political activist. He was born on May 12, 1946 in Denver. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu (1983), Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (1983), Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka (1983), and the Omnibus edition The Lando Calrissian Adventures. He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probability Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction novel.
Published works
North American Confederacy series:
The Probability Broach (1980, unexpurgated edition 1996, graphic novel 2004)
The Nagasaki Vector (1983)
The American Zone (2001)
The Venus Belt (1980)
Their Majesties' Bucketeers (1981)
Tom Paine Maru (1984)
The Gallatin Divergence (1985)
Brightsuit MacBear (1988) [1st in new series set in NAC universe]
Taflak Lysandra (1989) [2nd in new series set in NAC universe]
Lando Calrissian (Star Wars) series:
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu (1983)
Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (1983)
Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka (1983)
Omnibus edition The Lando Calrissian Adventures (1994)
Forge of the Elders Series:
Contact and Commune (1990)
Converse and Conflict (1990)
Forge of the Elders (2000) [comprising the previous two books plus a previously-unpublished 3rd book]
Ngu Family Saga:
Pallas (1991)
Ceres (2009) (online publication, with its final chapter and epilogue posted in January 2010)
Coordianated Arm series:
The Wardove (1986)
Henry Martyn (1989)
Bretta Martyn (1997) (sequel to Henry Martyn, connects to The Wardove)
Phoebus Krumm (2009) (online comic with art by Scott Bieser, sequal to Bretta Martyn)
Stand-alone works:
The Crystal Empire (1986)
Roswell, Texas (2006) (online comic with art by Scott Bieser)
Timepeeper (2008) (online comic with art by Sherard Jackson)
Non-Fiction
Lever Action (2001)
With Aaron Zelman
The Mitzvah (1999)
Hope (2001)
Published works
North American Confederacy series:
The Probability Broach (1980, unexpurgated edition 1996, graphic novel 2004)
The Nagasaki Vector (1983)
The American Zone (2001)
The Venus Belt (1980)
Their Majesties' Bucketeers (1981)
Tom Paine Maru (1984)
The Gallatin Divergence (1985)
Brightsuit MacBear (1988) [1st in new series set in NAC universe]
Taflak Lysandra (1989) [2nd in new series set in NAC universe]
Lando Calrissian (Star Wars) series:
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu (1983)
Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (1983)
Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka (1983)
Omnibus edition The Lando Calrissian Adventures (1994)
Forge of the Elders Series:
Contact and Commune (1990)
Converse and Conflict (1990)
Forge of the Elders (2000) [comprising the previous two books plus a previously-unpublished 3rd book]
Ngu Family Saga:
Pallas (1991)
Ceres (2009) (online publication, with its final chapter and epilogue posted in January 2010)
Coordianated Arm series:
The Wardove (1986)
Henry Martyn (1989)
Bretta Martyn (1997) (sequel to Henry Martyn, connects to The Wardove)
Phoebus Krumm (2009) (online comic with art by Scott Bieser, sequal to Bretta Martyn)
Stand-alone works:
The Crystal Empire (1986)
Roswell, Texas (2006) (online comic with art by Scott Bieser)
Timepeeper (2008) (online comic with art by Sherard Jackson)
Non-Fiction
Lever Action (2001)
With Aaron Zelman
The Mitzvah (1999)
Hope (2001)
Where to find L. Neil Smith online
Website: http://www.elNeil.com
Where to buy in print
Books
Hope
by L. Neil Smith
Price: $7.99 USD. 113370 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Can Alexander Hope, the accidental President, restore basic values and freedom to the nation? His opponents will stop at nothing to force their own agenda on the nation, including killing the President of the United States.
Price: $7.99 USD. 113370 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Can Alexander Hope, the accidental President, restore basic values and freedom to the nation? His opponents will stop at nothing to force their own agenda on the nation, including killing the President of the United States.
The Venus Belt
by L. Neil Smith
Price: $7.99 USD. 69100 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 24, 2009. Fiction.
More than 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the "normal" world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom-loving population in the "alternate" reality of the North American Confederacy are facing their own crises.
Price: $7.99 USD. 69100 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 24, 2009. Fiction.
More than 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the "normal" world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom-loving population in the "alternate" reality of the North American Confederacy are facing their own crises.
Tom Paine Maru
by L. Neil Smith
Price: $7.99 USD. 92760 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 24, 2009. Fiction.
Whitey O’Thraight, the Ship’s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor.
Price: $7.99 USD. 92760 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 24, 2009. Fiction.
Whitey O’Thraight, the Ship’s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor.