Not a book for people unwilling to have their perceptions challenged. Reviewed elsewhere on Wolfe's Lodge, Free Space is a collection of mostly libertarian stories, most published here for the first time. The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith Congress is in Colorado. Everybody carries guns. And there are gorillas in the Senate.
Free enterprise is king.
And there's no such thing a a free lunch. This is the novel that won L. Neil Smith the first of his two Prometheur Awards for Best Libertarian Fiction, and put him on the map as the foremost libertarian science fiction writer today. Young Emerson Ngu, escapee from the Greeley Project and husband to Altman's daughter, uses his talents to achieve dazzling success. Now it's a standoff that Pallas may not survive. This isn't my personal favorite Neil Smith book, but it's such a favorite with gun-rights folks that I just had to list it here.