For some more ancap fiction threads and posts I have assembled

I listend to a talk David D. Freidman gave at Duke on Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction. (Blog post) (Audio)

I was curious about the pieces he mentioned, so I decided to make a list of them.

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein

The Ungoverned - Vernor Vinge

True Names - Vernor Vinge

Oath of Fealty - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Syndic - C.M. Kornbluth

The Domination of Draka (series) - S.M. Stirling

Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Probability Broach – L. Neil Smith

The Great Explosion – Eric Frank Russell

The Cassini Division (Fall Revolution Series) - Ken MacLeod (I don’t believe the books by this author are mentioned but I believe this is the one concerning the “Einstein” in the capitalist enclave.)

Harald - David D. Friedman

Salamander - David D. Friedman

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Here are also some links to other threads on the subject that have been posted in this sub:

Any An-cap friendly novels out there?

A permanent catalog of fiction with AnCap themes (please feel free to contribute)

Any representations of a stateless society that is positive in fiction?

Agorist fiction?

I have provided Amazon links. Most of these pieces can be found online, but I will leave that to the reader.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who read that as 'literary sex bots".

If that's why you clicked, then here ya go:
**Charles Stross - Saturn's Children
Ariadne Tampion - Automatic Lover (free to read online)
David Erik Nelson - Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate
Arianna Moon - Android Anal Experience (The Jak Sax Files)
J.E. Lansing - Nymph: The Singularity
*Piers Anthony - Split Infinity
Paulo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
Tanith Lee - The Silver Metal Lover
Grant Naylor - Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
**Ruth Glyn Jones - Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms

*I've read it
**It's actually a decent read

Phew! Finding 10 of those without repeating authors/series was actually more difficult than expected. Absolutely no guarantees of any kind as to quality, consistency or frequency of sexbot appearances in the above, but I assure you they have 'em.

I loved Stephen Baxter's Anti Ice and his "sequel" to H.G. Wells's The Time Machine called The Time Ships (both a more "hard sci fi" take on the genre).

I'm also really digging Lindsay Buroker's novella series set in the Yukon that starts with Flash Gold (the first one is free)

Michael Coorlim's series is also quite good: And they called her Spider (and the first one is free as well).

I've not yet read Michael Moorcock's The Warlord of the Air but I hear that is also pretty excellent.

EDIT: For a kind of more out-there (but tons of fun) steampunk, check out Michael Forstchen's Lost Regiment Series (the first book is Rally Cry) about a Civil War regiment transported to an alien world where the natives raise and eat humans as cattle. The steampunk doesn't really show up until the 2nd or 3rd book, but a very engrossing series.

Yeah, I downloaded this free ebook from Amazon (My great grandfather was Czech). My other favorite (besides the decapitation one I mentioned earlier, "Rattle rattle, Chink chink") was the story of Kubik and the Frog. That woulda made a good comic, too.

not a bad explanation, but I still hold to Reynold's law... there are Six Directions of Space.

While all the anime/manga relations I can think of have already been mentioned, I can think of a number of Novels.

1) 1632 (aka The Ring Of Fire) Series.

Consists of roughly 40 books, with branching timelines. All the Timelines start with 1632 and 1633.

TLDR: The small american town of grantzvile and everything in a 2 mile circle is dumped in Germany during the middle of the cluster fuck that was the 30 years war.

[Summary of the first Novel.](/s "First thing they do is intervene in the pillaging of a nearby farm, second thing they do is rofl stomp a formation of ~600 french cavalry thanks to a nam vet and his M60 he had taken home with him , along about half the town arming themselves with bolt action hunting rifles and a few AR's. They then go on to form an alliance with Sweden, teaching them how to build and manufacture weapons that Sweden is realistically capable of mass producing like early 1800's era muzzle loading rifled muskets and breach loading cannons")

And they don't just go rofl stomping everything like the JSDF does, (Remember while gunpowder in the 15th century was still in it's early stages and melee combat was still the norm, it is still perfectly capable of killing someone) Such as when [Spoilers for 1633 & 1634: The Bavarian Crisis](/s "the spanish armada shows up, they manage to repel them with rocket artillery and napalm put together in the high school science lab, but they lose one of the 2 Fighter bombers they had built (Imagine a hellcat built with the Wood & Canvas materials of a WW1 Bi-plane and a Toyota Camry engine) and The only water craft that had come through with them, a speed boat with a jury-rigged knock off Katyusha launcher bolted to the deck. (Crew was almost all killed by 4 frigits broadsiding the speedboat with grape shot until they got lucky, then the only survivor Kamikazed the sinking boat into one of said frigits")

2) The Axis Of Time Trilogy

Consists of 3 books (In order); Weapon of choice, Designated Targets, and Final Impact. The first two books are available online in PDF format (Just ask and you'll get some dank links fam), the third book is paperback only as far as I can tell.

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Team Daryl!

Unexpected! Brent is a friend of mine and part of my writing group, and the feedback he has been providing on my own steampunk novel (currently a WIP) has been invaluable. I haven't read Gears of a Mad God, but his serial Black Dragon Blues is fantastic. I'd highly recommend it if steampunk with an Asian flavour is something that sounds interesting to you. :)

A Time To Every Purpose by Ian Andrew is a great alternative universe book that has the Nazis ruling the world into 2020s. Great twists, great deviatons with a great climax. You have to love any book that mixes, nazis and science with desperate to fight against the regime people. This is a great book with a great twist at the end! http://www.amazon.com.au/A-Time-To-Every-Purpose-ebook/dp/B00IOSISHM

Thank you so much. The second novel was published last week on Amazon. Everyone who has read it says it is better than the first. Give it a go and let me know what you think. I'm about 25% finished with number three and about 10% finished on the last three. I should have them all done over the next twelve months. Thanks again and have a great Christmas.

The Newbury and Hobbes Investigation series, by George Mann has been recommended to me. From what I have read it seems to follow a similar vein.

The first book is The Affinity Bridge.

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Are you interested in time travel? Do you like Dystopias? Have you ever wondered what life would be like today if the Axis had won World War 2? Are you happy with hard science fiction that doesn't skimp on action or character development? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Saving Hitler is the book for you! Recently edited by Josiah Davis, this novella is free to read on Kindle Unlimited and only 99¢ for everyone else. Click here to start reading now.

Hour of the Wolf by a Lithuanian author Andrius Tapinas.

Hey man, you may wish to check out my book. I mention this only because one of the reviewers says specifically, "It is reminiscent of Neil Stephenson, but without being self-congratulatory."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MKDXE5S/

The Galvanic Century series showcases a world where Queen Victoria rules an empire of steam from an iron throne well into the 20th century. It's a world where airships ply the skies and inventors cobble together monsters and wonders in their workshops. A world where were all the scientific fever dreams of the Victorian era - animal magnetism, galvanic resurrection, rare ether - are manifest.

A world marching inexorably towards a great war that will rock the earth to its very foundations.

The Steampunk Omnibus collects the first four Galvanic Century books into one collection.

In Bartleby and James, the eponymous detectives set out on their new endeavor as private detectives and tackle their first cases.

In A Gentlewoman's Chronicles gentlewoman Aldora Fiske balances obligation and justice as she seeks a life of adventure beyond London's social season.

In March of the Cogsmen, Bartleby and Aldora's wedding is harried by dead men melded with hot brass.

In Dreams of the Damned, Alton Bartleby must confront the father that he had committed decades ago – and convince the man to release the hostages he's taken.

This guy wrote an alternative history where they fixed the problem with units like the Americal Division before deployment

https://www.amazon.com/Victory-That-Wasnt-Alternate-Americas-ebook/dp/B00W2MGW4W/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8