Once the Erinye were human until they forsook their bodies for a timeless, virtual existence, then lashed out like jealous ghosts to destroy all they had left behind. One starship escaped the holocaust that consumed the Earth, and fled across the light-years to ice-locked Midgard, a planet barely suited to human life. Now, more than a century later, life is a struggle for the descendants of the first colonists, Earth is but a wisp of memory, and an alienated group marches against the ageless, forbidding ruler Lady Amalfi, determined to command their own destinies. But the rebels are divided, and a starship is on its way from Earth -- and there will be no hope for any of them if the dreaded Erinye are on board.
J.R. Dunn is a novelist, editor, and political commentator active both in print and online. His three novels include This Side of Judgment (1994), Days of Cain (1997) widely hailed as one of the most powerful novels to deal with the Holocaust, and Full Tide of Night (1998). He served as associate editor of The International Military Encyclopedia (1992 -- ), which has been on "hiatus" since his departure. Since 2005, he has contributed to the American Thinker, a leading political website, writing on military affairs, contemporary politics, conservative political theory, and liberal scandals and misbehavior. His columns have been reprinted, linked to, and discussed in publications as varied as The New York Times, USA Today, the Daily Telegraph, and Investor's Business Daily. He will edit the upcoming Military Thinker, the latest addition to the AT family.
Death by Liberalism is his first full-length political study, dealing with an appalling yet little-recognized truth: liberalism kills. Programs such as criminal justice reform, automobile fuel standards, deinstitionalization of the mentally ill, and federalization of child protection have delivered not the golden, utopian results originally promised, but failure upon failure, at times at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. As many as a half-million American citizens have been killed in the past half-century by liberal good intentions. "Death by Liberalism is a frank attempt", says Dunn, "to tear the mask of moral superiority from American liberalism to reveal how monstrous it truly is."
