Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LEWIN@CMU-CS-C From: LEWIN%CMU-CS-C@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Eric Frank Russell Message-ID: <2216@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 09:01:15 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2216 Posted: Thu Jun 16 09:01:15 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 18:49:34 EDT Lines: 13 From: DAVID.LEWINI'm not sure that I'd consider Eric Frank Russell a libertarian, since it seems that libertarianism implies a particular economic arrangement, free-market capitalism. He was, indeed, a pacifist/anarchist in many of his writings--including "And Then There Were None", otherwise known as "The Great Explosion". Two of his best stories are "Late Night Final", which definitely shows his idea of a mature civilization, and "I Am Nothing" --in which afuture Alexander is "conquered" by a little girl. Other stories involving non-libertarian anarchism include Sturgeon's "The Skills of Xanadu" and LeGuin's "The Dispossessed". -------