Victor Koman
Encyclopedia
Victor Koman is an American science fiction
and fantasy
writer and agorist. A three time winner of the Prometheus Award
, Koman is mainly popular in the libertarian
community. He is the owner of the publishing house KoPubCo.
Koman have made available the body of work of Samuel Konkin through KoPubCo. He is the pseudonymous author of the Gloamingerism pamphlets published as afterwords in the 1999 trade paperback edition of J. Neil Schulman
's novel Alongside Night
.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
writer and agorist. A three time winner of the Prometheus Award
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...
, Koman is mainly popular in the libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
community. He is the owner of the publishing house KoPubCo.
Koman have made available the body of work of Samuel Konkin through KoPubCo. He is the pseudonymous author of the Gloamingerism pamphlets published as afterwords in the 1999 trade paperback edition of J. Neil Schulman
J. Neil Schulman
Joseph Neil Schulman is a novelist who wrote Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza which both received the Prometheus Award, a libertarian science fiction award....
's novel Alongside Night
Alongside Night
Alongside Night is a Prometheus Award winning dystopian novel by science fiction writer J. Neil Schulman intended to articulate the principles of Agorism, a form of left-libertarianism created by Samuel Edward Konkin III, to whom Schulman had dedicated the work.-Introduction:It was first published...
.
Selected bibliography
- Saucer Sluts (1980)
- The Jehovah Contract (1987)
- Solomon's Knife (1989)
- Kings of the High FrontierKings of the High FrontierKings of the High Frontier is a hard science fiction novel by Victor Koman, first published in 1996.-Summary:The story is a polemic about NASA. The thesis is that NASA, far from helping space exploration, actually prevents it from going forth...
(1996) - Death's Dimensions: A Psychotic Space Opera (1999)
External links
- KomanSense, Koman's official website
- Victor Koman, Advocates of Self-Government
- Victor Koman, Fantastic Fiction