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Praise for J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night
New! Glenn Beck talks about Alongside Night
on The Glenn Beck Show!
“The [novel] was written in 1979. Alongside ... Morning? Something like that.
It reads exactly like my show. It does!
You know what the story is? A guy who is an economic expert
has been saying "The economy is collapsing! The economy is collapsing
and the government is going to seize control!" Everything is out of control.
He lives in New York City. His son is called from school.
He's told that your father has died; you've got to go home right away.
He takes out these blue notes because hyperinflation has come --
his father was right -- hyperinflation has come.
He's bartering with the cab driver to be able to get home.
He's bargaining with him -- "How many blue notes do you have?" --
because money is over. He gets to the apartment and Dad is
standing there: "Listen. Go get the gold. We gotta get out."
"But, Dad, they told me you were dead." "We've got to get out;
it was a ruse to give us time to get out." The son goes and
gets the hold that he had hidden in New York,
puts it in a belt, starts to come back ... and Dad and the family
now are gone. Been picked up by the Department of Justice. The
Department of Justice has built concentration camps! It's an interesting
read! I don't remember who wrote it. It doesn't take you long to read it.
I read it in a day. I don't think it's a big book. I read it on Kindle. But
it's good. I don't agree with everything in it. But it's a good
read and written in 1979! Phenomenal! Phenomenal!"
--Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Show, June 2, 2010
Listen to the Audio!
“J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night may be even more relevant today
than it was in 1979. Hopefully, the special thirtieth anniversary edition of
this landmark work of libertarian science fiction will inspire a new
generation of readers to learn more about the ideas of liberty
and become active in the freedom movement.”
--Congressman Ron Paul
"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
"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
"Alongside Night is terribly accurate. Whenever the American
crack-up boom happens, few libertarians would disagree
with his outline of the scenarios. But Neil went one step farther
than most of the libertarians of the time. He integrated
the new science of countereconomics and the economic philosophy
of Agorism, which I had only begun to develop in 1974....
When? You decide, dear reader; but you are now well armed
to see the signs and know what actions to take. Thanks to
Ludwig von Mises, a small band of rational revolutionary students,
and J. Neil Schulman, artist."
--Samuel Edward Konkin III
"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
"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
"Those who don't remember the future described in great science fiction
are condemned to live the bad parts. Alongside Night was a warning when
it first came out. Now it is contemporary reality and prophecy with a
vengeance. America needs this novel more than ever."
-- Brad Linaweaver
Prometheus Award winning author
"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
"A great book!"
--Shelly Roche
"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