Three-Decade-Old Milton-Friedman-Endorsed Novel Projecting Economic Meltdown Goes Viral on Web

In 1979 J. Neil Schulman's aboriginal novel, Alongside Night, was appear in album by Crown Publishers, with endorsements from Nobel-laureate-in-economics, Milton Friedman and arcane bobcat Anthony Burgess. The atypical projected a approaching if the United States is in a final accompaniment of collapse due to the federal government absurdity and hyper-inflating the dollar to pay its adopted creditors.

Now, three decades afterwards its aboriginal advertisement -- and with abounding of the novel's projections eerily absorption absoluteness -- Alongside Night has become a viral abnormality on the World Wide Web.

On June 13, 2009, the novel's accepted administrator -- Pulpless.com -- appear a new 30th Anniversary PDF eBook copy of Alongside Night as a chargeless download on the web from http://www.alongsidenight.net. On September 30, 2009 the amount of Alongside Night eBook downloads anesthetized 50,000 copies. This amount of downloads was able after a dime of advertising, and with no publicity advantage whatsoever from any above media aperture -- no television, allocution radio, magazine, newspaper, or above media website. It was a absolutely viral Internet abnormality apprenticed by bloggers, podcasters, and one YouTube account with the author.

In a June 22, 2009 article by Rachel Deahl on PublishersWeekly.com, Mundania Press admiral and administrator Daniel J. Reitz --whose publishing close houses a amount of imprints that broadcast romance, sci-fi, abstruseness and YA, a allotment of added genres, and has some 600 authors on its list-- appear "that his house’s e-books sell, on average, 100 to 200 copies in their aboriginal month. There are exceptions, however. Marie Rochelle, one of Mundania’s better sellers, who specializes in interracial romances, confused 4,000 to 5,000 copies in her aboriginal ages in the e-book architecture and several thousand book copies."

The Pulpless.com PDF eBook copy of Alongside Night had, by comparison, 22,645 downloads in its aboriginal two weeks of availability from aboriginal absolution on June 13, 2009 through June 30, 2009 -- to repeat, after any bartering or above media publicity.

A Wikipedia article on Alongside Night describes it as "a Prometheus Award acceptable autonomous and agitator dystopian atypical by science fiction biographer J. Neil Schulman aboriginal appear in 1979 by Crown Publishers. Subsequent album editions accept been appear by Ace Books in 1982, Avon Books in 1987, Pulpless.com in 1999, and Amazon Kindle in 2009. The book focuses on the appearance of Elliot, the son of a fabulous economist and Nobel Laureate, and his adventures in a badge accompaniment United States in the abreast future. The novel's bread-and-butter projections of the United States in bread-and-butter accident accept afresh been acclaimed as eerily absorption accepted real-world developments."

Wikipedia aswell reports, "The columnist has afresh completed a cine acclimation and in accession to a affection blur assembly a new clear novel, audiobook, and Massively Multiplayer Online Game are accepting planned."

Alongside Night's ceremoniousness cover accepting inducted into the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame in 1989 -- its aboriginal year of accommodation -- and its alternative as Freedom Book of the Month for May, 2009 by the Freedom Book Club.

No claimed advice from the downloader is requested by Pulpless.com's website in adjustment to download the atypical for free. The chargeless PDF copy of Alongside Night includes pages of affectation bartering in amid capacity -- mostly of books, films, products, and casework of absorption to libertarians.

Milton Friedman's letter of endorsement on Alongside Night reads, "An arresting novel--science fiction, yet aswell a cautionary account with a advancing affinity to accomplished history and approaching possibilities."

Anthony Burgess's endorsement reads, "I accustomed Alongside Night at apex today. It is now eight in the black and I just accomplished it. I anticipate I am advantaged to some banquet now as I had no lunch. The unputdownability of the book ensured that. It is a arresting and aboriginal story, and the account it presents of an inflation- bedridden America on the border of anarchy is all too acceptable. I wish, and so will abounding novelists, that I, or they, had anticipation of the abstraction first. A blood-tingling novel, crisply written, that fires the acuteness as bigger as it stimulates the feelings."

Congressman Ron Paul accustomed Alongside Night in 2009, saying, "J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night may be even added accordant today than it was in 1979. Hopefully, the appropriate thirtieth celebration copy of this battleground plan of autonomous science fiction will affect a new bearing of readers to apprentice added about the account of alternative and become breath in the abandon movement."

Full advice on Alongside Night is accessible on its official website at http://www.alongsidenight.com. The Alongside Night Facebook Group aswell updates Facebook associates on the novel.

Full advice on J. Neil Schulman and his consecutive career as a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, publisher, and filmmaker are on his claimed website at http://www.jneilschulman.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jneilschulman, on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jneilschulman, and on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Neil_Schulman .