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I highly recommend sampling Freehold, Better to Beg Forgiveness, and The Hero (the latter co-written with John Ringo), all of which are available from the Baen Free Library or the Baen CDs, before shelling out money for Williamson's works. I think he could be a competent author if only he managed to suppress his overwhelming need to proselytize for his right-wing/Libertarian ideology long enough for the story to have a chance to make it through the propaganda and to the reader.
Case in point: The Hero. It's reasonably free of political bullshit and manages to be a rather decent, if occasionally somewhat long-winded S/F action story. Contrast this with Freehold, which is so busy singing the praises of Libertarianism that the underlying military S/F story never gets off the ground and slowly suffocates to death.
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