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The L. Neil Smith Page at Phoenix Pick
Some material on this web-site has been taken from the author's web site. The back ground drawing was done by Scott Bieser, the photograph of El Neil was taken by Cathy L.Z. Smith
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www.ElNeil.com
Some material on this web-site has been taken from the author's web site. The back ground drawing was done by Scott Bieser, the photograph of El Neil was taken by Cathy L.Z. Smith |
Phoenix Pick Books by L. Neil Smith (click on cover or price to buy)
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Tom Paine Maru—Special Author’s Edition ISBN 978-1-60450-260-2, 224 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” Corporal Whitey O’Thraight may need to choose between his own survival or that of his home planet. 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. Captured by the local Baron, they are freed by a group of monks who are much more than they initially appear to be. Their new benefactors and friends have something special in mind for the two survivors, but going along with these plans might mean the destruction of Vespucci as they knew it. Another breath-taking adventure by the author of the award winning Pallas and The Probability Broach |
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The Venus Belt ISBN 978-1-60450-442-2, 166 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” More than a 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. People are disappearing across the Probability Broach, including Win Bear's closest friend, Featherstone-Haugh (who heads the Confederacy), and even Win's wife and assistant. Ill (and deadly) winds are blowing and threatening to destroy the Probability Broach as we know it. Win Bear, keeping one step ahead of lethal assassins and fighting incredible odds, must solve multiple apparantly disparate cases that all seem to lead to the end of freedom |
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The Crystal Empire ISBN 978-1-60450-452-1, 378 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec's Crystal Empire, led by a living God. 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. One man, however, will change that. Sedrich Sedrichsohn, a legendary fallen fighter, has a chance at redemption and nothing will stand in his way to reclaim his life and his purpose, even if he must fight the Sun-God himself. "Impressively Imagined"-Kirkus Reviews "A vibrant, science-fiction epic filled with verve, dash and inventive characters. It's creative, and it's fun, a fine bit of escapist fare for winter reading"-The Chatanooga Times |
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Pallas (Book I of the Ngu Family Saga) Prometheus Award Winner ISBN 978-1-60450-475-0, 328 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” Ex U.S. Senator Gibson Altman rules the prison colony where everyone is expected to live by rules that govern every aspect of their lives. The inhabitants of the experimental colony survive in a society plagued by crime, corruption and despair, toiling endlessly at tasks they are appointed to. Altman lives a life of luxury, ruling the lives of the souls trapped within his experiment and brooking no opposition to mandate. However, Pallas, the terraformed asteroid is also home to Curringer, a society in stark contrast to Altman's prison. It is a community where individual freedoms are championed and men and women are free to live as they please. Emerson Ngu escapes from Altman's prison colony and becomes a hero of Curringer. Altman is driven by a deep hatred of Emerson and his triumph and will do anything to get his revenge on him. But in the process will he also destroy and his own daughter and even the world of Pallas |
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Ceres (Book II of the Ngu Family Saga) 2010 Prometheus Award Nominee ISBN 978-1-61242-007-3, 490 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete and win on mankind's homeworld-an ambition that many say will cripple or kill her. Her older brother Wilson is equally set on quitting his job as a surveyor's apprentice to become an asteroid hunter, a calling fraught with the promise of fabulous riches and the danger of sudden death. He will find a full share of romance and disappointment, love and loss, and pursue the asteroid hunter's holy grail, the legendary Diamond Rogue. Llyra's training will require years, and a journey that will take her to Ceres, at one tenth Earth's gravity, where her father bosses the Ceres Terraformation Project, to the one-sixth gravity of the Moon, to Mars and one third gravity, and finally to Earth. Along the way, she will survive jealous rivals, a hostile press, terrorist attacks, and the hijacking of a spaceliner in order to achieve her goal. In the end, Llyra and Wilson will hear the call of the stars, themselves. |
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Hope (with Aaron Zelman) ISBN 978-1-60450-293-0, 228 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9” 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. An electrifying what-if political thriller by Aaron Zelman (founding member of Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership) and four time Prometheus Award winner, L. Neil Smith, author of Pallas and Tom Paine Maru. “A spell-binding novel of politics and passion that will appeal to women as well as men.”—Dr. Joanne D. Eisen & Dr. Paul Gallant |
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About L. Neil Smith Lester Neil Smith was born in Denver, Colorado on May 12th, 1946. His father was in the Air Force, so he grew up all over the North America in places like Waco, McQueenie, and Laporte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois -- all before he was in 5th grade -- and then St. John's, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida where he graduated from high school. Along the way, Neil acquired a deep interest in science and history, and studied Latin and German. He began shooting when he was around 11 years old, through a joint program of the National Rifle Association and the Boy Scouts of America. Ultimately, he won the rank of Eagle Scout and "more sharpshooter bars than I can remember". Music -- primarily guitar and banjo -- has always been a large part of Neil's life. (Lyrics to several of his songs may be found in his novel The WarDove.) In high school and college, he led a number of small groups and bands including the Shady Grove Singers, The Roughriders, and the Original Beautiful Dreamer Marching Jug Band. His first "real" job was as a banjo player at a Shakey's pizza parlor. Greatly preferring science fiction to anything else, Neil's boyhood favorites were Arthur Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Richard Wilson, Robert Scheckley, and of course, Robert Heinlein. It was through his interest in science fiction that he encountered the works of Ayn Rand in 1961, when he read Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged and knew he had found the worldview that would guide him the rest of his life. He also recognized the unique way the ideas of Rand and Heinlein compliment each other, and it was this direction he began to take philosophically and politically. Neil joined the Libertarian Party in 1972 (serving on the national platform committee in 1977 and 1979) and became a life member of the NRA in 1974. It was in 1972 that he met the great libertarian teacher Robert LeFevre. In 1977, frustrated by the course American politics was taking, Neil began work on a highly polemic science fiction novel, originally titled The Constitution Conspiracy, which he hoped would do the same thing for libertarianism that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin did for Abolitionism or Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the works of H.G. Wells did for socialism. That novel was published in December of 1979, by Random House, the first publisher that read it, under the more familiar title The Probability Broach. It was the first of 21 L. Neil Smith books (so far), including The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, Pallas, Bretta Martyn, Star Wars: The Lando Calrissian Adventures, and most recently The Mitzvah, with Aaron Zelman. At the moment he's working on three books, one with famous cartoonist and humor writer Rex F. "Baloo" May. A highly prophetic author, Neil's writings have predicted, among other things, the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the internet as we now know it, and the digital watch. For several years, Neil was an enthusiastic competitive shooter, favoring NRA Hunter's Pistol, the half-scale version of international handgun metallic pistol (he used a S&W 10m/m revolver and shot in the mid 20s). He plans to resume competition when he can find the time. At present and for the foreseeable future, he lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Cathy, his daughter Rylla, and two cats, Amber and Ambrose. |
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