Nemo’s World:

The Substrate Wars 2

by

Jeb Kinnison

(February 2015, tpb, 281 pp.)

Reviewed by Dave Truesdale

Nemo’s World owes much to the libertarian philosophy put forth in several of Robert A. Heinlein’s novels from the 1950s and early 1960s. There are many colors and shades of modern Libertarianism, but one of the core tenets is an aversion to a government controlling the individual. How, and to what degree a government should protect, oversee, or control it citizens (for their own good), are the primary points of disagreement among libertarian ideologies, for as history shows us far too often a government’s efforts to “protect” its citizenry soon becomes—and masks—the true reason for restricting and controlling it: pure Power.