tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post5721795096465449163..comments2024-03-18T01:21:08.663-07:00Comments on LiberaLaw: Wanted: An Anarchist PIGary Chartierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687278491211390956noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-27222586107003499582010-06-09T23:29:34.239-07:002010-06-09T23:29:34.239-07:00L. Neil Smith's Probability Broach (or what I&...L. Neil Smith's Probability Broach (or what I've read so far) irritates me a bit with it's boo-hooing for "poor, innocent" corporations like Coca-Cola. It would be nice to have a story set in a world where a much more decentralised economy developed thanks to not having state privileges around to prop up such corporations...<br /><br />But what to make the story about?? Hmm... need to do inspirational research. Character wise I'm already envisioning a Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. Cal Lightman (Lie to Me*).Joseph McGinnishttp://www.facebook.com/steampunkradicalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-24753184312331684812010-03-15T22:23:37.060-07:002010-03-15T22:23:37.060-07:00I'd been thinking of two related story ideas. ...I'd been thinking of two related story ideas. One about alien visitation by interstellar entrepreneurs, offering security services in exchange for precious metals (or something else of value), and let the consequences play out of people paying to opt out of the system. Offers a good dose of economics, sci-fi, and political comedy along the way.<br /><br />Another about a free zone neighboring a more traditional western democracy. I picture Bogart as the PI and Claude Rains as the visiting diplomat, looking to get information and possibly plant evidence to start a war. How would people living in a free society try to prevent such a thing? Would there be any social cohesion, or would it be all too easy to pull it apart?<br /><br />Please, someone steal either idea and write something great.Nathan Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267275486291742633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-60736419840039643352010-03-15T00:26:28.535-07:002010-03-15T00:26:28.535-07:00Read L. Neil Smith's books. His alternative u...Read L. Neil Smith's books. His alternative universe has a PI hero in them, PALLAS and other works of his are excellent.<br /><br />Like the idea. Need more writers of fiction to make freedom and liberty world's more visible!!<br />NoelWuliriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287085110991651782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-40108724084229776872010-03-14T21:35:44.215-07:002010-03-14T21:35:44.215-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Chartierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687278491211390956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-72609283830815505042010-03-14T21:34:06.825-07:002010-03-14T21:34:06.825-07:00Tom: more stuff to add to my reading list.
Ayn: I...Tom: more stuff to add to my reading list.<br /><br />Ayn: I'm all for it--I've already mentioned my appreciation for fantasy detective fiction (Butcher, Hamilton, sometimes Steven Brust, whom I forgot to name in the post). I love genre-crossing. I'd just like to see people exposed to the details of a stateless society in a non-didactic, non-expository way (just drop the reader into the middle of the world, rather than bothering to try to explain its history and describe its mechanics in the abstract). What's your fantasy detective novel going to be like?Gary Chartierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687278491211390956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-10894700823142244492010-03-14T21:28:59.923-07:002010-03-14T21:28:59.923-07:00What about a detective novel in a fantasy setting,...What about a detective novel in a fantasy setting, as my wife and I are working on?Ayn R. Keyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14542012608585134864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7257263697107031621.post-46385727248203982872010-03-14T16:32:35.397-07:002010-03-14T16:32:35.397-07:00L. Neil Smith's North American Confederacy nov...L. Neil Smith's North American Confederacy novels resemble that remark (except <em>Her Majesty's Bucketeers</em>, which is more Doyle than Chandler).Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.com