J. Neil Schulman

J. NEIL SCHULMAN is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker, publisher, radio personality, composer, actor, and unemployed prophet. He's the author of twenty-one books (including break-outs, audiobooks, and a graphic novel) and including two award-winning novels, Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza, short fiction, nonfiction, and screenwritings ... He adapted and directed Alongside Night as a 2014 feature film ... The novel's movie edition of his classic Prometheus-Hall-of-Fame novel — lauded by Anthony Burgess, Milton Friedman, and Ron Paul — has been joined by a graphic novel ...

J. Neil Schulman is the author of two award-winning science fiction novels, as well as libertarian non-fiction, short fiction, and screenplays. His 1979 novel Alongside Night was praised by the likes of Anthony Burgess, Milton Friedman, Poul Anderson, and Dr. Thomas Szasz (who said it "ought to be ... the Atlas Shrugged of the '80's") and in 1989 was entered into the Prometheus Society Hall of Fame for outstanding science fiction. His 1984 novel The Rainbow Cadenza won the Prometheus Award for that year, and was praised by science fiction giant Robert Heinlein, Nathaniel Brandon, and Colin Wilson.

Author J. Neil Schulman spoke for many when he confided that "If Robert Heinlein hadn't written the books he wrote, and I hadn't read them, I doubt very much that I would have had the intellectual background necessary to climb out of the hole I was in between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. He wrote about futures that were worth living for. He wrote about talented people who felt life was worth living and made it worth living, no matter what the breaks that fell their way. His characters never had an easy time of it, but they persevered."

Here's what I think is going on with the Dubai Ports World deal to operate five American ports. United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East right now ... I am extremely unhappy with President Bush and his major cabinet secretaries for their ham-handedness, their "father knows best" arrogance toward the American people, and their unwillingness to admit that there are serious risks to our national security no matter how carefully they think our bureaucracies at the State Department, the Commerce Department, the Homeland Security Department and the CIA have vetted this deal.

I've called myself a libertarian since January 10, 1971, when my mother, a diehard New York Sunday Times crossword-doer, said to me, "Hey your favorite author's picture is in the Times Magazine." I rushed over and sure enough there was Robert A. Heinlein's picture illustrating an article entitled "The New Right Credo—Libertarianism" ... Bush is not the best of all libertarian candidates in some theoretical contest where actually having to be president doesn't count, but compared to John F. Kerry, George W. Bush is without question the more libertarian of the two presidents we will end up with.