O Mighty Ship of State
Liberty’s Daughter
By Naomi Kritzer
2 Nov, 2023
Everything Is Worse With Libertarians
Naomi Kritzer’s 2023 Liberty’s Daughter is a near-future fix-up novel.
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead community located comfortably outside the limits of American waters. Founded almost fifty years earlier, the cluster of seasteads is a glorious celebration of true liberty, which is to say the right of rich people to do whatever they want and for poor people to make that possible.
Beck’s father Paul is one of the local elites. That does not mean Beck is sitting on her hands, waiting for bondservants to feed her bonbons. The teenager has sought out gainful employment, eventually landing on the role of finder.
But first! A word about where the seasteads fit into the economy of the future.