'I received Alongside Night at noon today. It is now eight in the evening and I just finished it. I think I am entitled to some dinner now as I had no lunch. The unputdownability of the book ensured that. It is a remarkable and original story, and the picture it presents of an inflation- crippled America on the verge of revolution is all too acceptable. I wish, and so will many novelists, that I, or they, had thought of the idea first. A thrilling novel, crisply written, that fires the imagination as effectively as it stimulates the feelings.'
--Anthony Burgess

'One of the most widely hailed libertarian novels since the classic works of Ayn Rand.'
--Reason Magazine

'High Drama ... A story of high adventure, close escapes, mistaken identities, and thrilling rescues. ... A fast-moving tale of a future which is uncomfortably close at hand.'
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

'An absorbing novel--science fiction, yet also a cautionary tale with a disturbing resemblance to past history and future possibilities.'
-- Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in Economics

'The narrative is fast-paced, the plot well-developed... [T]he book reads extremely well and its intellectual thrust is clear and is not belabored. I was too engrossed in the novel to read it critically.'
-- Thomas S. Szasz, MD

'Probably the best libertarian novel since Atlas Shrugged.'
-- Science Fiction Review

'Let me begin with a disclaimer: I don't really agree with many of J. Neil Schulman's ideas about society or politics or money. But his first book, Alongside Night, is as enjoyable piece of cautionary fiction as I have read in some years ... Like Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein, Schulman can tell a good story!'
-- Sunday Detroit News

'An unabashedly polemical , libertarian novel which packages its message in a fast, effectively told action adventure.'
-- Publishers Weekly

'This is a radical novel. It pulls no punches, offers no compromises. It effectively presents a social, moral, and political point of view without polemic, without stridency. Without hysteria, it projects a bleak future for us all, but not without hope, for there's a deep affection for humanity despite its foibles underlying every sentence.'
-- F. Paul Wilson

'I found it a sprightly, enjoyable read that will help to educate the public on some fundamental economic issues.'
-- Michael Medved

'Here is a frightening and all too plausible picture of the near future. America is already a long way down the road that leads to it. Yet there is also a hopefulness in the story, for the author develops a philosophy, in considerable practical detail, that we could begin living by today, if we will choose to be free.'
-- Poul Anderson

'Anyone interested in freedom will find this more than readable.'
-- Jerry Pournelle

'Not only a first-rate suspense thriller, but also a brilliant exposition of libertarian ideas. I read it with great enjoyment and heartily recommend it.'
-- Robert Anton Wilson

'As the seventies ended ... the time seemed ripe for a great libertarian novel to appear, and so it did. The novel was Alongside Night...'
--Liberty Magazine

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