This was the LibriVox reading by Mark Douglas Nelson (God bless him, this was a great reading). That's already been done and you can read it for yourself. Pretty dated in it's attitudes to women and everything else but still mostly harmless fun.įirst off, I won't recap the description of the book. It's a fluffy libertarian fairy tale that's good for a couple of hours diversion. The new ambassador, our hero, has to bring the killers to justice despite the peculiar courts, thwart the invasion and of course, get the girl. The previous ambassador from the Solar League (Earth) has been assassinated by killers hired by dog like aliens who want to take over the planet. The focus of the story is on the planet's legal system, which permits the murder of politicians if they "had it coming", if for example they try to introduce an income tax. So every ranch has it's private army and air force. They're herded not with the cowboy's faithful horse, but with tanks and bombers. They brought their guns but they didn't have to bring the cows because New Texas is the home of the supercow, a 15 thousand pound cross between a hippo and a dinosaur, which is also the best meat in the galaxy. Texans, fed up with government over regulation, and with government in general, pack up en masse and migrate to a planet they call.wait for it.New Texas. It is free from Amazon at this time.Ī good ol' 50's era space opera for the good ol' boys. ![]() If you enjoyed the movies Cowboys and Aliens West World Serenity The Aurora Encounter Back to the Future Part III Tremors 4, The Legend Begins and the tv series, Firefly, you may want to try this one. The story Is said to have bern based on an idea by H.L. It eventually won a Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1999. It was later published in book form as A PLANET FOR TEXANS in Ace Double D-299 in 1958. Beam Piper published LONE STAR PLANET in the March 1957 issue of FANTASTIC UNIVERSE. There are obvious similarities between Ambassador Stephen Silk and Keith Laumer's diplomat extraordinaire, Jame Retief but Laumer began his series of stories and novels in the early 1960's. But the ways they have evolved to maintain that type of government! Add to the inherent entertainment value of that basic premise a hostile alien race set to invade, a Solar League opposing the aliens, a Retief style ambassador and you have a very entertaining story with large doses of humor written by a notable golden age sci-fi author. We don't want any masters here on New Texas.". ![]() ![]() Here is a quote from the novella, ""Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant let it get rich and powerful and it's your master. A place where it is open season on politicians. New Texas - a planet of extreme individualists with a libertarian type government taken to its logical absurdities.
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