Alongside Night Books by J. Neil Schulman From Pulpless.Com™ Novels Alongside Night The Rainbow Cadenza Escape From Heaven Nonfiction The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana The Frame of the Century? Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns The Heartmost Desire Short Stories Nasty, Brutish, and Short Stories Omnibus Collection Self Control Not Gun Control Collected Screenwritings Profile in Silver and Other Screenwritings Praise for J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night “J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night is a brilliant exposition of solid economic theory and riveting story telling. Very quickly he captures the reader’s imagination as he takes them through a tour of future economic collapse. As a Professor of Economics, I am impressed by Neil’s cogent and thorough understanding of both the nature of freedom and its economic implications. I was completely transfixed on an action filled story of trust in human relationships during this dire economic implosion. From the very first page, you cannot put the book down until the last page. Neil demonstrates even in a time of economic darkness, there is hope as liberty will arise from the ashes of collectivist disaster. I highly recommend Alongside Night. This is destined to be a true master- piece!” --Dr. Thomas C. Rustici, Professor of Economics, George Mason University “Alongside Night is one of my favorite novels.” --Walter E. Block, Ph.D. Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business Loyola University New Orleans “The [novel] was written in 1979. … It reads exactly like my show. …Phenomenal! Phenomenal!” --Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Show, June 2, 2010 “J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night may be even more relevant today than it was in 1979. Hopefully, the special thirtieth anniver- sary edition of this landmark work of libertarian science fiction will inspire a new generation of readers to learn more about the ideas of liberty and become active in the freedom movement.” --Dr. Ron Paul “An absorbing novel--science fiction, yet also a cautionary tale with a disturbing resemblance to past history and future possibili- ties.” -- Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in Economics “I received Alongside Night at noon today. It is now eight in the evening and I just finished it. I think I am entitled to some dinner now as I had no lunch. The unputdownability of the book ensured that. It is a remarkable and original story, and the picture it pres- ents of an inflation- crippled America on the verge of revolution is all too acceptable. I wish, and so will many novelists, that I, or they, had thought of the idea first. A thrilling novel, crisply writ- ten, that fires the imagination as effectively as it stimulates the feelings.” --Anthony Burgess “Alongside Night is terribly accurate. Whenever the American crack-up boom happens, few libertarians would disagree with his outline of the scenarios. But Neil went one step farther than most of the libertarians of the time. He integrated the new science of counter economics and the economic philosophy of Agorism, which I had only begun to develop in 1974.... When? You decide, dear reader; but you are now well armed to see the signs and know what actions to take. Thanks to Ludwig von Mises, a small band of rational revolutionary students, and J. Neil Schulman, artist.” --Samuel Edward Konkin III “One of the most widely hailed libertarian novels since the classic works of Ayn Rand.” --Reason Magazine “High Drama ... A story of high adventure, close escapes, mistaken identities, and thrilling rescues. ... A fast-moving tale of a future which is uncomfortably close at hand.” -- Los Angeles Times Book Review “The narrative is fast-paced, the plot well-developed... [T]he book reads extremely well and its intellectual thrust is clear and is not belabored. I was too engrossed in the novel to read it critically.” -- Thomas S. Szasz, MD “Those who don’t remember the future described in great science fiction are condemned to live the bad parts.Alongside Night was a warning when it first came out. Now it is contemporary reality and prophecy with a vengeance. America needs this novel more than ever.” -- Brad Linaweaver Prometheus Award winning author “Probably the best libertarian novel since Atlas Shrugged.” -- Science Fiction Review “Let me begin with a disclaimer: I don’t really agree with many of J. Neil Schulman’s ideas about society or politics or money. But his first book, Alongside Night, is as enjoyable piece of cautionary fiction as I have read in some years ... Like Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein, Schulman can tell a good story!” -- Sunday Detroit News “An unabashedly polemical, libertarian novel which packages its message in a fast, effectively told action adventure.” -- Publishers Weekly “The idea originated from Schulman’s ‘Alongside Night’ ...” -- Anonymous Administrator, “Silk Road” Underground Website “I wanted to let you know that I read Alongside Night while in jail for Civil Disobedience in Keene, New Hampshire. It was a won- derful book, and made more so by my surroundings while reading it.” -- Rich Paul “If Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged was the elementary school of a very effective education in freedom, then J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night has to be the post-graduate studies course.” -- Dan Steward, With Liberty “This is a radical novel. It pulls no punches, offers no compro- mises. It effectively presents a social, moral, and political point of view without polemic, without stridency. Without hysteria, it projects a bleak future for us all, but not without hope, for there’s a deep affection for humanity despite its foibles underlying every sentence.” -- F. Paul Wilson “I found it a sprightly, enjoyable read that will help to educate the public on some fundamental economic issues.” -- Michael Medved “Here is a frightening and all too plausible picture of the near fu- ture. America is already a long way down the road that leads to it. Yet there is also a hopefulness in the story, for the author develops a philosophy, in considerable practical detail, that we could begin living by today, if we will choose to be free.” -- Poul Anderson “Anyone interested in freedom will find this more than readable.” -- Jerry Pournelle “A great book!” --Shelly Roche “Not only a first-rate suspense thriller, but also a brilliant exposi- tion of libertarian ideas. I read it with great enjoyment and hearti- ly recommend it.” -- Robert Anton Wilson “As the seventies ended ... the time seemed ripe for a great lib- ertarian novel to appear, and so it did. The novel was Alongside Night... Night was a straightforward example of fictional extrap- olation, moving the follies of the 1970s ahead a few decades to show a society in a state of collapse, a picture few would have argued with at the time and which could still befall us. The ques- tion, as ever, was whether such an outcome was inevitable and, if not, what steps could be taken to avoid it. Schulman’s solution was libertarianism -- “agorism,” to be precise -- which is present- ed as the ground state of any political economy. existing whether the powers-that-be desire it or not. Schulman never makes a false move in working out his system; its operations are depicted in stunning and virtually irrefutable detail. One of his most brilliant touches (which was borrowed, along with other ideas, from Hein- lein) was the portrayal of the agorist rebels as descending from today’s underground economy. Alongside Night was unusual in be- ing hailed far beyond the confines of SF and libertarianism. Milton Friedman was highly impressed (nor surprisingly -- he was the basis for the book’s rogue economist Martin Vreeland) and no less a figure than Anthony Burgess bemoaned the fact that he hadn’t thought of the idea first. Alongside Night is a didactic novel that does not lecture, a revolutionary novel that avoids empty heroics. Beyond that it is a book that had to be written, and we are lucky that it was written so well.” --J.R. Dunn, Liberty Magazine Alongside Night A Novel by J. Neil Schulman PULPLESS.COM 150 S. Highway 160, Suite C-8, #234 Pahrump, NV 89048, U.S.A. (775) 751-0770 http://www.pulpless.com Inquiries to [email protected] Copyright © 1979, 1999 by J. Neil Schulman Copyright © 2013 by The J. 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