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Survival of Freedom

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Some great short stories about human struggle for freedom and justice. At first glance, the appendix is chalked full of short stories from many different authors including Pournelle himself, Poul Anderson, etc. Some of these aren't actually stories, but essays. I bought the book to read sci-fi, not some sci-fi authors dystopia view of modern democracy (I honestly skipped the rambling and cut straight to the stories). "Lipidleggin" is for sure a one-of-a-kind prophetic story. And "Dodkin's Job" is THE gems here! A lowly miner "raises the ranks" to the very top then again to the very bottom just because he doesn't want to take his shovel to storage. So much ot it than that... buy the book JUST for this one story!

As we enter the Summer of 2003, we hear more and more from those who think it would be a fine thing if it was not so easy to eat things that are bad for us - people are actually suing fast-food chains because those people got fat eating fast food. Well, check out the story "Lipidleggin'", in this collection of fiction and essays about freedom. The last time I re-read the book was a couple of years ago, but I remember classic science fiction and some intelligent essays - but "Lipidleggin'" is genuine prophecy.