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Atlantis: A Novel about Economic Government
Source: White Knight Publishing
Author: Robert Klassen
Country: United States

A shareware book "with gratitude to the ideas of Ayn Rand, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Andrew J. Galambos, and Ruth Beebe Hill."

VOLK
Source: Pulpless.Com
Author: Piers Anthony
City: Tampa, State: FL, Country: United States

Free online sampling of the first chapter; there is a small fee for downloading the entire book, but it is certainly worth it. Set during WWII, "Volk" is described as both a "love story" and a fictional take on the horrors of war.

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
Source: Foresight Institute
Author: K. Eric Drexler
Country: United States

Eric Drexler's now-famous book, first published in 1986. On the technological advances to come in molecular engineering -- advances that will impact every aspect of our lives, including our freedom.

Kings of the High Frontier
Source: Pulpless.Com
Author: Victor Koman
Country: United States

"Kings of the High Frontier is an intriguing...novel that brings back the sense of wonder that drew so many of us into science-fiction in the first place," writes Charles De Lint of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. There is a small fee ($3.50) to download the entire novel.

The Land Beyond Summer
Source: Pulpless.Com
Author: Brad Linaweaver
Country: United States

Sample a chapter of Linaweaver's novel on this site, or download the entire thing (for a reasonable fee, of course).

Alongside Night
Source: Pulpless.Com
Author: J. Neil Schulman
City: Long Beach, State: CA, Country: United States

America as it might--but hopefully won't--become if it continues on its current path. Reason magazine calls it "One of the most widely hailed libertarian novels since the classic works of Ayn Rand." You can get a taste test on this site, or download the entire thing for just a few dollars.

Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution
Source: Foresight Institute
Author: K. Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson
Country: United States

"The science is good, the engineering is feasible, the paths of approach are many, the consequences are revolutionary-times-revolutionary, and the schedule is: in our lifetimes." --Stewart Brand

The Argus Project
Source: A. R. Yngve
Author: A. R. Yngve
Country: United States

The last boxing champion and a nude-dancer cyborg team up against the last politician, against the backdrop of interplanetary war. A tour-de-force across the Solar System of almost 200 years into the future, similar in spirit and imagery to "The Stars My Destination."

Time Will Run Back (The Great Idea) e-text
Source: Henry Hazlitt Foundation
Author: Henry Hazlitt
Country: United States

Henry Hazlitt's only work of fiction, originally published as "The Great Idea." In a future world, the young heir to a Communist dictatorship attempts to improve the lot of his people and thereby slowly rediscovers the importance of freedom. (1951/1966)

The riddle of post-national power and the global protocol
Source: Timbro
Author: Mauricio Rojas
Country: Sweden

The Internet captured the world by a process of voluntary association and negotiation. No supreme national government forced people to adopt the new language of digital transmission or to be part of the global network. The author shows that a new order, based on peaceful co-operation and mutual trust, is growing up between the fragments of the past and the vigorous present. Available as Adobe PDF.

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