L Neil Smith

http://www.lneilsmith.org/

Author of the Probability Broach, in which there's a parallel Earth which "split off" from ours based on their Declaration Of Independence said: that certain truths are self-evident, that people are created equal, that they are endowed with inalienable rights, that governments derive their power from the unanimous consent of the governed and that the purpose of government is to protect these rights.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Probability_Broach
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Confederacy
• now a free Web Comic - http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn

From that point on their technological and social progress is much faster than ours. There's a funny timeline at the end of the book showing how quickly they got to the moon, etc.

Obviously he's a Libertarian. What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

But he hates the Libertarian Party. He occasionally gets drafted to run for US President, outside the LP. http://www.smith2004.org/ (Presidential Candidates 2004)

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