I am so glad you are interested! Whenever you do get to it, I hope you enjoy!
Best of luck brother, thanks for having the courage to express yourself combined with an entrepreneurial risk. Based on the positive reviews, I will start reading this as well.
Thanks alot! I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think when you’re done!
This had me hooked. Like one of the Amazon reviewers said, clear your to-do list. Household chores have been neglected as much as possible to finish the book.
At the point where Layla wanted prostitution banned, I started thinking about restrictive covenants. That would be an interesting theme to explore in a sequel or any other offshoot of this world. Suppose some people gathered together and agreed to form an association where certain activities would be banned on their property? How much effort would they expend to enforce the agreement? Would the security companies arbitrate disagreements?
Thank you so much! I’m so pleased you liked it!
I think restrictive covenants are an important part of a free society. With restrictive covenants one always thinks, of course, of Hans Hermann Hoppe. My only point of disagreement with him is that I think he envisions a world of neighborhoods with tightly restrictive covenants… unless I am misreading him. I, however, tend to think that most areas will be more relaxed. I think covenants will be used to draw lines such as when noise becomes noise pollution and things like that. Hoppe’s contention that homosexuals would need to be excluded from covenant communities who were focused on families is, frankly, grossly obtuse (although he has been unfairly attacked by people who either have not understood his argument or are deliberately creating strawmen). For the most part, Hoppe is brilliant and his contribution to libertarianism is enormous.
As for a sequel, I have an idea I am kicking around in my head, and covenant communities would be part of the story. I also have a couple non-sequels I am thinking of and am not sure what I will write next.
Thank you so much for your support!
That’s funny, I was also going to mention Hoppe, thinking of the Gaians and how that kind of goes along with the idea of needing to exclude groups that are inimical to the beliefs of the community. Of course, the Gaians are an extreme case as their goal really was to destroy the free community, and therefore were not worthy of protection, which Alistair probably realized too late.
Covenant communities brings to mind “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson.
I think restrictive covenants are an important part of a free society. With restrictive covenants one always thinks, of course, of Hans Hermann Hoppe. My only point of disagreement with him is that I think he envisions a world of neighborhoods with tightly restrictive covenants… unless I am misreading him. I, however, tend to think that most areas will be more relaxed. I think covenants will be used to draw lines such as when noise becomes noise pollution and things like that. Hoppe’s contention that homosexuals would need to be excluded from covenant communities who were focused on families is, frankly, grossly obtuse (although he has been unfairly attacked by people who either have not understood his argument or are deliberately creating strawmen). For the most part, Hoppe is brilliant and his contribution to libertarianism is enormous.
Did you actually read his book? This sounds remarkably like the mischaracterization by various anti-libertarians on this forum who never read the book. I forget the page offhand, but as a footnote where he discusses gays he cites Rothbard on “Greenwich Village-style multi-cultural” (i.e. socially tolerant) communities.
Actually, as I was writing this I remembered that Kinsella posted about this reecntly, and he even bolds this footnote I’m talking about.
(I suppose you also envision some covenant based groups could be more radically fundamentalist and not even tolerate homosexuals at all, but that is not what you are equating with a covenant-based libertarian society per se.)
In support of this interpretation, I note that on p. 212 you explicitly state that what gays do in private is their own business, and you write: “To avoid any misunderstanding, it might be useful to point out that the predicted rise in discrimination in a purely libertarian world does not imply that the form and extent of discrimination will be the same or similar everywhere. To the contrary, a libertarian world could and likely would be one with a great variety of locally separated communities engaging distinctly different and far-reaching discrimination” (“e.g. nudists discriminating against bathing suits,” as Tucker points out in Idiot Patrol). You then favorably quote Rothbard, from his 1991 Rothbard-Rockwell Report article, “The ‘New Fusionism’: A Movement For Our Time”:
In a country, or a world, of totally private property, including streets, and private contractual neighborhoods consisting of property-owners, these owners can make any sort of neighborhood-contracts they wish. In practice, then, the country would be a truly “gorgeous mosaic,” … ranging from rowdy Greenwich Village-type contractual neighborhoods, to socially conservative homogeneous WASP neighborhoods. Remember that all deeds and covenants would once again be totally legal and enforceable, with no meddling government restrictions upon them. So that considering the drug question, if a proprietary neighborhood contracted that no one would use drugs, and Jones violated the contract and used them, he fellow community-contractors could simply enforce the contract and kick him out. Or, since no advance contract can allow for all conceivable circumstances, suppose that Smith became so personally obnoxious that his fellow neighborhood-owners wanted him ejected. They would then have to buy him out—-probably on terms set contractually in advance in accordance with some “obnoxious” clause.
Anyhow, I never make time for reading fiction, but I wish you the best of luck with your book.
Finished yesterday!
This book is fantastic, but it is truly an investment of time and you must be willing to finish the first 100—150 pages before you are hooked on the plot. I suggest 15-20 pages a day for a week until you’re hooked on the story; you will finish the next 500+ pages in the following week (it is so good). One of the most entertaining books I’ve read in a long time! The conversations between the characters are very rich in thought and the applications of anarchy and arbitration are top notch!
Given this, I think about 50 pages of added details could be removed from the story without effecting the book, but this may only be my opinion because I was rushing to finish it near the end of the book.
I couldn’t recommend this story enough for fiction and nonfiction lovers!
Hey Jeremiah, you should write a review and submit it for consideration as a Mises Daily. 
Exactly. Pro-environment needs to be pro-human or else there is no good to it.
Haven’t read it, but it’s on my to-do list.
Thanks for the well-wishing! I am not sure if I made my point clear enough before, because I don’t think what you posted is refuting the point I made.
Take care!
Awesome!
I have had a few note that it starts slow, and I agree, but I often prefer that, especially in a longer work. I like to ease in, establish some things, plant some seeds… however I did try to include some important plot points at the beginning. I hope it wasn’t too slow!
Thanks a lot! I appreciate all you’ve done!
I won’t complain! 
Am I allowed to second that, or does it require a neutral third party?
Withur We will be available for $12.99 on Kindle from Amazon in the next couple days!
Finished the book a little over a week ago, and was pleasantly surprised by several things: the natural pace and style in what could be considered an overtly political novel, the same qualities together with great editing in a first time novel, and finally the scope and quality of storytelling. Most important to me was the success in giving life to a protagonist who embodies an ideal while maintaining humanity and avoiding caricature. This would be an impressive effort even by a veteran author; it is much more so by a newcomer. I very much enjoyed it, very strongly recommend it, and hope there is more to follow.
Thank you so much, FNU-LNU! It’s always wonderful to hear that someone enjoyed your efforts. I will definitely be writing another, although it may be a year or two before it is ready.
Take care!
Awesome. I look forward to reading it!
The Download Free PDF option on your website isn’t working.How can I get a free PDF of this to download(if there is such a thing)?
I find this interesting.I’m not often into fiction but this looks quite exiciting to see how anarchy would play out in a fictional society.
Thanks, MPP! I hope you enjoy it!
Hmmm. I tried it and it worked. Let’s hope it’s because there is sooooo much traffic, eh?
Send me an email through the website - malexander@withurwe.com - and I will be happy to send you the PDF version.