Overlitigation as sci-fi theme

by Walter Olson on May 26, 2011

“Nanolaw with Daughter” is a short science fiction story by Paul Ford about birth, “speculative law firms” and bulk litigation [Ftrain via BoingBoing]

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1 Roy B 05.26.11 at 11:24 am

Glad you tagged this as humor, I smiled through my tears…

2 Carter Wood 05.26.11 at 12:27 pm

Best science fiction book I’ve read with legal themes, The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin.

Blurb:

A brilliant industrialist named Justin Cord awakes from a 300-year cryonic suspension into a world that has accepted an extreme form of market capitalism. It’s a world in which humans themselves have become incorporated and most people no longer own a majority of themselves.

Justin Cord is now the last free man in the human race – owned by no one and owning no one.

3 Astraea 05.26.11 at 6:33 pm

Carter: I consider that book sadly in the same class as Ayn Rand, with similar themes. I don’t mind thematic science fiction, I don’t even mind libertarian bleating, but I prefer not to be hit over the head repeatedly with the message. Write a book, don’t write exposition about the evils of whatever you’re opposing. This book had way too much exposition, and way too little good writing.

4 Alan K. Henderson 05.27.11 at 1:47 am

My favorite sci-fi courtroom drama is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

5 Carter Wood 05.27.11 at 11:13 am

Astrae — Well, I see your point, but on the other hand, I read The Unincorporated Man in two settings — try that with Rand — and it has lots of good SF technology and ideas in it, e.g., nanotechnology taken five generations into the future and a space elevator.

6 David Smith 05.27.11 at 1:46 pm

That WAS NOT funny.

Maybe gallows humor.

7 J.T. Wenting 05.28.11 at 7:54 am

I wonder how Astrae thinks about Das Kapital… The ultimate political fiction, yet taken as gospel by millions.

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