Final Frontier of Freedom

I'm guessing this will be the first time you've gotten a recommendation for a story from Asimov's Science Fiction in at least 15 years: The July cover story, "The Empress of Mars," deals with eminent domain, prohibition, entrepreneurship, religious freedom, political correctness and assorted other issues of (presumable) interest to Reason readers. The villain is a behemoth British public corporation with the full powers of the state at its disposal, so that at times the story reads almost like one of those Institute for Justice sagas where a small business owner is fighting The Man. Readers are split on the story's merits as both science and fiction, but if you're looking for a libertarian angle, you could do a lot worse. And if you don't feel like reading it, maybe you'd be interested in pondering why science fiction seems to be among the more fertile genres for libertarian ideas.