Book description
In McAdam City, Kentucky, people are fed up with big government
interfering with their lives, telling them what they can't do, sticking
its nose into their private business, trying to keep them from
protecting their legitimate interests from Uncle Sam.
When an invisible barrier is put up to protect McAdam City, everything
changes. This "silicone shell" is impervious to anything the
army can throw against it. People are dying for the cause of personal
freedom in this small Kentucky town, but they've finally found a way to
fight big government with a digital technology greater than anything in
the government's vast arsenal.
Can one small town declare its independence from the United States?
With the silicone dagger poised at the throat of the republic, just
maybe... Jack Williamson (1908 - 2006)
John Stewart 'Jack' Williamson was born in Arizona in 1908 and raised
in an isolated New Mexico farmstead. After the Second World War, he
acquired degrees in English at the Eastern New Mexico University,
joining the faculty there in 1960 and remaining affiliated with the
school for the rest of his life. Williamson sold his first story at the
age of 20 - the beginning of a long, productive and successful career,
which started in the pulps, took in the Golden Age and extended right
into his nineties. He was the second author, after Robert A. Heinlein,
to be named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by SFWA, and by far the
oldest recipient of the Hugo (2001, aged 93) and Nebula (2002, aged 94)
awards. A significant voice in SF for over six decades, Jack Williamson
is credited with inventing the terms 'terraforming' and 'genetic
engineering'. He died in 2006.
