THE NOVELS OF L. NEIL SMITH Readers of my political essays and speeches may not know about my adventure fiction, which advocates personal self-defense, weapons ownership, and individualism. It's fair to say (because I'm not the first to say it) that if you like the works of Robert A. Heinlein or H. Beam Piper, you'll like what I do. If you can't find it on the racks, take this list to the order desk of your friendly neighborhood book emporium -- or try _used_ bookstores. And be on the lookout for LEVER ACTION, my first non-fiction book, coming soon! IN INVERSE ORDER: PALLAS (Tor, 1993) In the persons of a disgraced ultraliberal United States Senator -- in well-deserved exile -- and a young Vietnamese immigrant inventor who aspires to be a firearms manufacturer, socialist "East America" and entrepreneurs of the "Jackelope Republic" fight for control of an entire new world. Lots of RKBA talk, plus metallic silhouette shooting. Winner of the Prometheus Award. Favorably reviewed by _Guns & Ammo_. FORGE OF THE ELDERS: CONTACT AND COMMUNE (Warner, 1990) FORGE OF THE ELDERS: CONVERSE AND CONFLICT (Warner, 1990) FORGE OF THE ELDERS: CONCERT AND COSMOS (see note***) The American Soviet Socialist Republic claims the asteroid 5023 Eris, but somebody -- something -- is already there. The Elders aren't human, but they're from Earth (in a manner of speaking), they're individualists, and _capitalists!_ ***So politically incorrect that Warner unilaterally _cancelled_ the third volume! HENRY MARTYN (Tor, 1989) A thousand years from now, in the cold depths of interstellar space, there will be sailing ships -- and _pirates_! Vast empires clash as Arran Islay fights to regain a legacy brutally stripped from his family by the Black Usurper. Critically acclaimed, compared to the works of Rafael Sabatini (_Captain Blood_) and C.S. Forester ("Horatio Hornblower"). And watch for BRETTA MARTYN, coming sometime in 1996. THE WARDOVE (Berkley, 1986) The Earth was destroyed in 2023 and only a few thousand Lunar colonists survived. Nine hundred years later, in a prosperous star-spanning nation which has done away with conscription and taxation, Captain Nathaniel Blackburn, of Coordinated Arm Intelligence must find out who's killing rock stars raising money for the War Against the Clusterian Powers. Includes lyrics to a dozen songs written by the author. THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE (Tor, 1986) Moslems rule the world in this adventure of a gunsmith in an alternate world where the Black Plague killed 999 out of 1000 and technology -- especially firearms -- took the blame. A fast-moving tale of clashing cultures, individual survival, romance, and revenge. LANDO CALRISSIAN & THE MINDHARP OF SHARU (Del Rey, 1983) LANDO CALRISSIAN & THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON (Del Rey, 1983) LANDO CALRISSIAN & THE STARCAVE OF THONBOKA (Del Rey, 1983) The youthful adventures of _Star Wars_' famous gambler and gas mine entrepreneur before Han Solo won the _Millenium Falcon_ from him. Old-fashioned "space opera" recently combined and reprinted as THE LANDO CALRISSIAN ADVENTURES (Del Rey, 1994). BRIGHTSUIT MACBEAR (Avon, 1988) On Majesty, a planet covered pole-to-pole with jungle six miles deep, MacDougall Bear, the great grandson of Win Bear (see _The Probability Broach_, below) fights to prevent a terrible crime and recover a lost legacy. TAFLAK LYSANDRA (Avon, 1988) Testing a marvelous "subfoline" vehicle, young Elsie Nahuatl becomes lost beneath Majesty's mysterious Sea of Leaves with her father -- who happens to be a cybernetically enhanced coyote named Howell. Evocative of Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile series of novels. THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE (Del Rey, 1985) Win Bear time-travels back to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 to save Albert Gallatin, president and founder of the North American Confederacy. First appearance in print of the Covenant of Unanimous Consent. TOM PAINE MARU (Del Rey, 1984) Launching spaceships eight miles in diameter, the freewheeling North American Confederacy reaches for the stars! _Its_ Prime Directive: search out governments wherever they exist -- and destroy them! Sapient dolphins and talking apes contend with aliens on the endless frontier. THEIR MAJESTIES' BUCKETEERS (Del Rey, 1981) On a bizarre desert planet just entering its Age of Invention, "fireman" Agot Edmoot Mav -- member of a furry, crablike species with nine legs and three genders -- invents the art of criminal detection in order to solve the murder of his favorite university professor. THE VENUS BELT (Del Rey, 1980) How does a politically ethical culture conquer its "final frontier"? A series of mysterious disappearances leads detective Win Bear, ably assisted by Koko Featherstone-Haugh, a young female gorilla, and Lucy Kropotkin, a disgruntled murder victim, to the asteroids -- and a conspiracy stretching across whole universes. THE NAGASAKI VECTOR (Del Rey, 1983) Is a civilization with an absolute regard for individual rights helpless against those who would destroy it? Time traveler Bernie Gruenblum hires detective Win Bear to track down the stolen flying saucer that loves him. (Based on "Grimm's Law", "Folger's Factor", and "Grandfather Clause", stories which appeared in Judy-Lynn del Rey's _Stellar Science Fiction Nos. 5, 6, & 7_, Del Rey, 1980 & 1981; see also, "The Embarrassment Box", _New Libertarian_, August, 1990.) THE PROBABILITY BROACH (Del Rey, 1980) The book that started it all! In deadly conflict with the feds, homicide detective Win Bear is accidentally blown into the North American Confederacy, where the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded in 1794 and government has grown less powerful ever since. Prometheus Award winner. (See also, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", _Alternatives_, edited by Robert and Pamela Crippen Adams, Baen, 1989. Making a place for himself in the stateless North American Confederacy, Win Bear discovers the joys and difficulties of absolute self-ownership.)