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    Books with a libertarian society

    Fiction or non fiction doesn't matter...would really like to read some...always looking for new stuff to read.



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    "The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith is an absolute must-read!

    There's a graphic novel version that you can read for free online, but I'd definitely recommend getting the full version as well.
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    Sounds really good are any of his other books the same way? What about any other books with a libertarian society?

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    Almost anythng by Heinlein.
    Out of every one hundred men they send us, ten should not even be here. Eighty will do nothing but serve as targets for the enemy. Nine are real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, upon them depends our success in battle. But one, ah the one, he is a real warrior, and he will bring the others back from battle alive.

    Duty is the most sublime word in the English language. Do your duty in all things. You can not do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less than your duty.

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    Yeah the Probability Broach is only the first in a series of novels called the North American Confederacy Series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Confederacy

    I haven't read any of the sequels or prequels, but the Probability Broach was frickin' amazing. I'd reread my copy right now if it wasn't lost in storage.
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    I put the first one on hold. If I like it I will buy the rest because my library system doesn't have them.

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    Awesome! Hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think!
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    Anything by Heinlen, some Neal Stephenson stuff.

    The Dispossessed by Ursula K Guin is about some guy who was raised and lives on a socialist/communist planet but is taken to a libertarian type planet and his world is thrown upside down. Or something like that.

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    Atlas Shrugged does but you will read about half the book before getting to it.
    Once more into the fray...
    Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
    Live and die on this day...
    Live and die on this day...

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    Ditto on Atlas Shrugged. That's one book every American should read at least once.
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    Sharper Security is free for Kindle until Dec 27th. It's a near future thriller/action/mystery novel, but the main setting is post U.S. split into regional parts and most of the action takes place in a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist society. Search Amazon for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharper View Post
    Sharper Security is free for Kindle until Dec 27th. It's a near future thriller/action/mystery novel, but the main setting is post U.S. split into regional parts and most of the action takes place in a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist society. Search Amazon for it.
    Thanks,bought it.Can't beat the price.

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    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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    An Enemy of the State, by F. Paul Wilson

    The Girl Who Owned a City

    Alongside Night



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    The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, it represents a stateless society but not really an an cap society. Also, she only attempts to convey how a stateless society would work on a very austere planet (not earth).



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