Noteworthy participants in the Echo message forum included Star Wars authors Roger MacBride Allen, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Daley, Barbara Hambly, Shane Johnson, Vonda McIntyre, L. Neil Smith, Kathy Tyers, Tom Veitch, Timothy Zahn — along with occasional Lucasfilm representatives, West End Games freelancers, and employees of Dark Horse Comics.
His father was an Air Force officer, and his childhood was spent in various places including Waco, McQueenie, and La Porte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois (all before he completed fifth grade) and then St. John's, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida where he graduated from high school.
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The antagonists of the series are styled Federalists, or sometimes "Hamiltonians", after the historical political party of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
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He and running mate Vin Suprynowicz received 5,775 votes in the national election, less than 0.01% of the vote.
In L. Neil Smith's North American Confederacy series of novels, beginning with The Probability Broach, an alternate-history LaPorte is one of the major cities of North America, occupying roughly half the area of Larimer County, and with a population of over two million people; whereas the city of Denver does not exist: In its place are the two small historic settlements of Saint Charles Town and Auraria.
L. Neil Smith, Libertarian science fiction author and political activist
L. Neil Smith (born 1946), American libertarian science fiction author and political activist
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The character appears in stranger guises in The Nagasaki Vector by L. Neil Smith, as a cyborg who specializes in scent tracking, and in Sky Coyote by Kage Baker, wherein the role of "Sky Coyote" is taken on by the cyborg Joseph in order to convince a Chumash community in California to evacuate in advance of European exploration.
Authors whose essays appear in The Libertarian Enterprise include L. Neil Smith, Aaron Zelman, Claire Wolfe, Jason Sorens, Victor Milan, Anders Monsen, and Vin Suprynowicz.
The Adventures of Lando Calrissian: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, Book Club Hardback Ed,1984, L. Neil Smith, Book Club # 3639