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I just found this place and I think I can help you all out a little bit. In Star Trek: Enterprise the United Earth was established, in the time of the Enterprise Series.
The United Earth founded Starfleet and the security council, this is part of the local planetary government of Earth and is Starfleet is the military science branch of United Earth. The ...
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This was probably We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Zamyatin, an Old Bolshevik, wrote the novel in 1921 in post-revolutionary Russia (before it was even known as the "Soviet Union"), in part as an expression of his dissatisfaction with how the revolution was proceeding, especially the advancing authoritarianism. The novel-length prose poem tells of a dystopian ...
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Committee of the Whole by Frank Herbert. Previously identified in Looking for story about man on televised trial, presents plans for laser gun
The main character is William Custer. He is called to a hearing in Washington:
With an increasing sense of unease, Alan Wallace studied his client as they neared the public hearing room on the second floor of the ...
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There are probably a number of books that might fit this description. However, the one that immediately jumped to mind for me was Slan by A. E. van Vogt. It concerns a boy with an invention that lets him shoot energy beams; however, his (telepathic) type is being hunted by the government, and he gets involved in both violence and intrigue.
The plot ...
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