L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III , better known as L. Neil Smith, is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu , Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon , Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka , and the Omnibus edition The Lando Calrissian Adventures. He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probability Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction novel. Smith was born in... Denver, Colorado. His father was an Air Force officer, and his childhood was spent in various places including Waco, McQueenie, and Laporte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois and then St. John’s, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida where he graduated from high school. L. Neil Smith should not be confused with J. Neil Schulman, another Libertarian science fiction writer.
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