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Alongside Night

av J. Neil Schulman

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It's the near future and America is in trouble. Hyperinflation and disorder reign in the towns and cities of the nation. But this isn't Atlas Shrugged. It's the nonstop action and suspense in award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night. Alongside Night tells the story of Elliot Vreeland, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Martin Vreeland. When his family goes missing and while being shadowed by federal agents, Elliot, with the help of his mysterious companion Lorimer, explore the underground world of the Revolutionary Agorist Cadre to rescue them. It's a story of romance, intrigue, action, adventure, and exhilarating science fiction thrills. Beyond Elliot's personal journey, Alongside Night portrays -- in the words of Anthony Burgess -- -an inflation- crippled America on the verge of revolution.- When originally published in 1979 Alongside Night portrayed a futuristic dystopia ending with a fictional Agorist revolution; but decades later Alongside Night as both novel and movie now presents hope for a world ready to be renewed by the real-world Agorist movement pressing the re-set button on the universal freedom principles first fought for in the 18th century American Revolution. This movie edition of J. Neil Schulman's classic 1979 novel both returns to the original text of the first-edition Crown hardcover and adds new forematter and aftermatter including a new foreword by fellow Prometheus-award-winning author, Brad Linaweaver; a review of the movie by another Prometheus-award-winning author, L. Neil Smith; a new afterword by J. Neil Schulman titled -Welcome to Customer Service, - and the complete text of Samuel Edward Konkin III's New Libertarian Manifesto. This edition retains afterwords by Schulman, Konkin, and J. Kent Hastings, published in the 1999 20th and 2009 30th anniversary editions of the novel. Alongside Night scored lavish praise for a first novel when it appeared in 1979, winning accolades from luminaries such as Anthony Burgess, the English novelist many consider the greatest of his generation, and Milton Friedman, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. Ten years later the Libertarian Futurist Society voted the book into the Prometheus Hall of Fame as a novel embodying the spirit of liberty, alongside Orwell's 1984, Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The novel has been lauded on the pages of Publisher's Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit News, Reason, and Liberty. In the years since its original publication Alongside Night has been praised as well by Dr. Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, and Austrian-school economics professors Dr. Thomas Rustici of George Mason University and Dr. Walter Block of Loyola University.… (mer)
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I am a libertarian and very sympathetic to the political views expressed in this book. However, I don't really enjoy reading fiction about politics when it reads like it was written by a missionary. Schulman is obviously inspired very much by Heinlein, which he acknowledges several times in the book, but where Heinlein never let his politics get in the way of the story, this is exactly what Schulman does. I grew up in the 70s in a marxist home. We had all this marxist literature there. You know, stories about how great marxism was and the glorious revolution and all that. This is the libertarian equivalent to that. In other word it is quite terrible. If you want to read about this kind of thing, pick up a book by Ludwig von Mises instead.
I gave the book two stars because it is in some ways an interesting oddity. Things like this came out of the libertarian movement at a time when many leftwingers were getting into libertarianism, and therefore this book is of historival interest. But besides that it isn't worth reading. ( )
  danielbeattie | Dec 10, 2009 |
Alongside Night is science fiction and political fiction joined in a small novel that is certainy worth a look from several directions. In several ways - as sc-fi it rates poorly, but with surprising pieces of accuracy. Originally published in 1979, his 'projections' about the future capabilities of technology share Star Trek like problems; computers have covered most of his predictions and in some areas have exceeded him. But it also has a shortcoming in that none of his predicting is covered by any details as to how it all works.

Sculman's politics shares some of the same difficulty: it has surprising overlap with our 2009 poliical and financial problems, but while some details of history exceed his projections, there is a good bit of difference.

The result however, isn't bad fiction. The story is captivation, as two teenagers get involved with and make major contribution to the successs of his anarcho-capitalist rebellion in the U.S. And some things, like Europe getting to free markets before us, have yet to be clear, although some trends point that way.

Schulman predicts the collapse of communism (happened), impact of the internet (happened), and movement of the U.,S. toward a fascist totolitarianism (may be hapening). If you keep the time-frame firmly in mind (1979-2009) the book certainly gives some interesting thoughts. Your political view will probably determine your enjoyment, the further right you are, the more you will like it; and libertarians cannot get enough. ( )
1 rösta ServusLibri | Oct 18, 2009 |
Maybe I'm not enough of an economist to get this book, but good god. As far as I'm concerned, you could lock all copies of this one in the same underwater vault where I'd like to hide everything ever penned by Ayn Rand. If there is one thing I hate more than whiny libertarian characters, it's underage, endlessly noble, upperclass libertarian characters who believe in anarchocapitalistic revolution.

Seriously. The story was no great shakes. The protagonist bumped along, the sex interest was ideal in every way (she can fight! she can fuck! she believes in the ideals of open markets and hates taxation!), a few people died to make the reader feel that the economic revolution was justified, and so on. Blah blah blah. I got mine, screw you.

final thought: Not worth reading, not worth any further blogging about. ( )
  mustreaditall | Sep 9, 2008 |
Fascinating, although not especially so from a literary standpoint, view of a near-future collapse of the American government and economic system and the rise of an agorist system. ( )
  voluntaryist | Jun 27, 2007 |
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It's the near future and America is in trouble. Hyperinflation and disorder reign in the towns and cities of the nation. But this isn't Atlas Shrugged. It's the nonstop action and suspense in award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night. Alongside Night tells the story of Elliot Vreeland, son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Martin Vreeland. When his family goes missing and while being shadowed by federal agents, Elliot, with the help of his mysterious companion Lorimer, explore the underground world of the Revolutionary Agorist Cadre to rescue them. It's a story of romance, intrigue, action, adventure, and exhilarating science fiction thrills. Beyond Elliot's personal journey, Alongside Night portrays -- in the words of Anthony Burgess -- -an inflation- crippled America on the verge of revolution.- When originally published in 1979 Alongside Night portrayed a futuristic dystopia ending with a fictional Agorist revolution; but decades later Alongside Night as both novel and movie now presents hope for a world ready to be renewed by the real-world Agorist movement pressing the re-set button on the universal freedom principles first fought for in the 18th century American Revolution. This movie edition of J. Neil Schulman's classic 1979 novel both returns to the original text of the first-edition Crown hardcover and adds new forematter and aftermatter including a new foreword by fellow Prometheus-award-winning author, Brad Linaweaver; a review of the movie by another Prometheus-award-winning author, L. Neil Smith; a new afterword by J. Neil Schulman titled -Welcome to Customer Service, - and the complete text of Samuel Edward Konkin III's New Libertarian Manifesto. This edition retains afterwords by Schulman, Konkin, and J. Kent Hastings, published in the 1999 20th and 2009 30th anniversary editions of the novel. Alongside Night scored lavish praise for a first novel when it appeared in 1979, winning accolades from luminaries such as Anthony Burgess, the English novelist many consider the greatest of his generation, and Milton Friedman, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. Ten years later the Libertarian Futurist Society voted the book into the Prometheus Hall of Fame as a novel embodying the spirit of liberty, alongside Orwell's 1984, Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. The novel has been lauded on the pages of Publisher's Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit News, Reason, and Liberty. In the years since its original publication Alongside Night has been praised as well by Dr. Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, and Austrian-school economics professors Dr. Thomas Rustici of George Mason University and Dr. Walter Block of Loyola University.

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