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_Soft and others_, F. Paul Wilson
As james_nicoll has noted, initial middlename lastname is a marker for Libertarian SF writers. In this anthology, there's only one tract -- "Lipidleggin'", in which butter and eggs have been outlawed by Federal health code -- and there's another which appears to be downright pro-strong-central-government ("Ratman").
The intro to "Lipidleggin'" contains this gem:
It was the mid-seventies and Senator Ted Kennedy was agitating for national health insurance, the kind that brought Britain to the brink of ruin. Luckily, wiser heads prevailed and another fascist Kennedy scheme was aborted.
Erm. Quite.
Nothing in here approaches the readability of his Repairman Jack novels, although "Ratman" and "To Fill the Sea and Air" are both solid alien planet / human problem stories.
As james_nicoll has noted, initial middlename lastname is a marker for Libertarian SF writers. In this anthology, there's only one tract -- "Lipidleggin'", in which butter and eggs have been outlawed by Federal health code -- and there's another which appears to be downright pro-strong-central-government ("Ratman").
The intro to "Lipidleggin'" contains this gem:
It was the mid-seventies and Senator Ted Kennedy was agitating for national health insurance, the kind that brought Britain to the brink of ruin. Luckily, wiser heads prevailed and another fascist Kennedy scheme was aborted.
Erm. Quite.
Nothing in here approaches the readability of his Repairman Jack novels, although "Ratman" and "To Fill the Sea and Air" are both solid alien planet / human problem stories.
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F. Paul Wilson has a few stories in the Campbellian Analogs that I bought used once upon a time. I distinctly remember the story "Wheels Within Wheels", which very obviously (even to my high-school-aged brain) was a story opposed to civil rights legislation.
Hmm. ISFDB says that "Wheel Within Wheels" and "Lipidleggin'" are both in the LaNague Federation (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1641) series.
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