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Not Built for Freedom Kindle Edition

by Gorg Huff (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The ship was a monkey’s paw of an inheritance. It had been intended as such, but it also couldn’t be avoided. Arnold Bellamy didn’t go looking for it or even find it on a beach, it found him.
The ship wanted, needed, an owner. It had been designed that way. It was also under orders. Shoven, its former owner, had wanted more than anything to keep it out of the hands of his creditors. If it caused the destruction of an alien race that was just a bonus.
That was where the cursed part came in. As much as Shoven didn’t want his ship to fall into Tarkiv’s tentacles, that was how much Tarkiv wanted the ship. Not out of need or even desire for the ship itself but simply to take it from Shoven.
The extinction of the human race wasn’t the goal. Just a minor unimportant side effect.
Pest control.
Arnold could grab his family and run. That would probably work. Of course, the Earth would still be destroyed. The high ground advantage meant that Earth lacked the means to stop hundreds of extinction level asteroids sent their way. That was assuming that the repossession ships didn't just stand off and blow the hell out of the planet with nukes or lasers.
Arnold decided to stay and fight. He named the robot brain that ran the ship James and the ship itself, he named the Black Star.
Then he got to work.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FH7CW3FH
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 9 2025
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • 鶹 Rank: #86,227 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Gorg Huff

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I like writing because I am one of those people who thinks of the right thing to say hours, weeks or even years, too late. That sucks in day-to-day life, but in writing you can go back and do a rewrite.

Also, because I like creating stuff. A story, a painting, drawing, virtual object in a computer, an invention, a doorway, a doggy door, a cake or loaf of bread. The process takes me out of myself as well as reading or watching the tube does. And when I'm done, I have the knowledge that there is something new in the world. Which is kinda cool. Or I have a cake, which is kinda fattening.

Historically, I have been a student, a paratrooper, a construction worker, a clerk, a cashier and so on. And for varying reasons, not overly good at any of them. What I never really thought I would be is a writer. Wanted to be, yes. Thought it possible, no.

Politically I want to be a libertarian and an anarchist, but I can't. I can't because, as Hamilton pointed out in 1787, you need a balance of powers. It's only competing factions that allow for freedom. And as Adam Smith pointed out, whenever you see two industrialist talking, the safe bet is that they are colluding to fix prices. (Neither of those are exact quotes but they get the jist.)

Capitalism works. It's more productive than any controlled economy ever has been or, in my opinion, ever could be. But unrestricted capitalism will destroy itself. I want capitalism to be guided. Not because I hate it, or even distrust it, but because I know it. And because I want to keep it alive and producing for a long, long time.

Socially I am a libertarian. I do not believe that any law is a good thing, only that they are sometimes necessary evils. But a necessary evil is still evil. And a law needs to prove it is necessity and keep right on proving that the good it does is greater than the harm it does or it needs to be repealed.

While it's counter-intuitive because a government is a structure of laws and restrictions, I believe that government does better when it increases the options of the citizenry than when it decreases them. Not always possible, but when it is it's the better way to go.

Gorg Huff

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  • Edward Philipp
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gorg Huff writes a good story.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2025
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    Almost always finding an abandoned alien spaceship with a super computer that craves companionship makes for a good story. Gorg has the imagination to write a good story which intertwines politics, military strategy, and economics with regular Joe's thrust into overwhelming situations.

    Interestingly, he also writes fun fantasy and is a major writer in Eric Flint's 1632 Universe, where I first read his work. This story begs to have a sequel.
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  • bob zielazinski
    5.0 out of 5 stars SF about the recent past
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2025
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    A space ship that needs to be owned.
    The usual fun stuff about technology transfer and how it disrupts (and is opposed by) existing economic powers.
    Oh, and Lots of discussion about servitude, involuntary and - of all things- voluntary.
    I loved it.
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  • Norman
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great story
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2025
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    Only the 2nd 5 Star book rating this I gave this year. Great addition to the “I got a working starship and need to keep it” genre . A great story, skillfully written, well edited with only 1 unclear sentence.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A most unique view of a first contact situation
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2025
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    This is a very well told story with a very unusual hypothesis about the course of a first contact situation. It is also unusual in that the protagonist is a perfectly ordinary guy about average for a US citizen.
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  • Lisa Wilson
    4.0 out of 5 stars good
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2025
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