L. Neil Smith

Gunsmith and novelist who once ran for President on the Libertarian Party ticket with a total campaign budget of $44.

Author of a fair number of books, all with a distinctly libertarian bent. He has interesting ideas, and he knows how to write, but there's an unpleasant amount of preaching in some books. Fun books to thrust upon people with a more totalitarian view.

The Probability Broach
The Venus Belt
Their Majesties' Bucketeers
The Nagasaki Vector
Tom Paine Maru
The Gallatin Divergence
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonbaka
The Wardove
BrightSuit MacBear
Taflak Lysandra
Contact and Commune
Converse and Conflict
The Crystal Empire
Henry Martyn
Bretta Martyn
Pallas
The Forge of Adversity