LiberNoctis is proud to present our debut title - The Syndic by Cyril M. Kornbluth with additional material by the esteemed Jeff Riggenbach!
What if the State — the monopoly government of a certain territory — left that territory? What if centralized, coercive government just went away? Would criminals take over?
For the sake of argument, let's say they do. The government is gone and organized crime has taken over. Would the residents of that territory, the former citizens of the erstwhile government, be worse off or better?
The Syndic suggests that the answer is not straightforward. In fact the author, Cyril M. Kornbluth, explores a variety of answers in the form of an adventure undertaken by one of those future "criminals." Kornbluth's science fiction has been praised not just by his readers but by his fellow authors, some of whom were less than fond of Kornbluth himself.
LiberNoctis brings you this classic of science fiction, with foreword and extensive afterword by noted libertarian writer Jeff Riggenbach on the history of the author, the novel, and the politics of mid-20th-century science fiction among Kornbluth's contemporaries — men such as Isaac Asimov on the Left, Robert Heinlein on the Right, and libertarian science-fiction advocates who sought to redefine the political spectrum through the power of science fiction itself.
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