Project Utopia: A Libertarian Science Fiction Anthology

by Russell Hasan

Russell Hasan continues the proud tradition of libertarian science fiction with this contribution to the genre, a short fiction anthology featuring seven science fiction stories. Here you will find “Project Utopia,” a flash fiction story about control and freedom, “Stealth Stars,” a longer story in which an astronaut explorer lands on a strange planet and struggles to make sense of its political system, another story about a plot to travel back in time to destroy the philosophy of Objectivism before it begins, a story about a hero’s quest to defeat a sinister secret society of scientists bent on world domination, and other charming science fiction tales, each with a slant in favor of freedom. If you like science fiction or libertarianism, there’s a good chance you’ll find something to like in this short fiction anthology.

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 15, 2017

About the author

Russell Hasan (any pronouns) is a writer and lawyer who lives in Connecticut. A graduate of Vassar College and the University of Connecticut School of Law, his distinctions include having written for the libertarian magazine Liberty at a time when its print edition was distributed to bookstores nationwide and being one of the pioneers in the field of self-published indie nonfiction, with his self-published nonfiction titles having sold 10,000 copies. His essay "A System of Legal Logic" continues to be one of the only books in the field seeking to apply symbolic formal logic to legal analysis and jurisprudence, and his essay "What They Won't Tell You About Objectivism" is regarded as one of the best essays on the subject. He has recently shifted focus from nonfiction to fiction, where his specialty is fantasy and science fiction. He also food blogs about pizza and coffee. He follows the UConn Huskies men's and women's college basketball teams, the New York Yankees and the New York Giants, and he plays Magic: the Gathering, both paper and digital, and has achieved Mythic rank on MtG Arena in multiple seasons. Of interest is also the fact that he volunteered as a program facilitator for the largest LGBTQ social services organization in southwestern Connecticut for five years, where he co-led an in-person community group for playing board games and card games to provide a sober space for the LGBTQ community.

Reviews

[Gilberto Torres Jr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun Read

Good set of stories for a quick, fun read. Some parts of the stories are thought provoking which makes for good reading.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are interesting and thought-provoking stories. They also fill a gap between libertarian speculative fiction and LGBTQ speculative fiction.