and unrealistic view of humanity calling it a "very long but frankly not very entertaining diatribe". Michael M. Jones of SF Site conversely called Williamson's portrayal of a libertarian society "sound and believable" and described the book as "a satisfactory debut". Ginger Armstrong of Kliatt called Freehold a "highly readable SF adventure" with "a strong female protagonist". Carolyn Cushman of Locus noted heavy emphasis on the exposition of Libertarian ideology with plotting and pacing taking a back seat but described the novel as "amazingly entertaining". Many of Williamson's other works are set in the universe established in Freehold. One is Contact with Chaos (2009) where humanity has first contact with alien beings. This becomes a further source of conflict between the United Nations and the Freeholders. In a review of the book, Joseph T. Major praised Williamson for refraining from heavy-handed political messages and instead creating "a diverse, varied human interplanetary society ... trying to understand an exotic, alternative nonhuman society". Other novels set in the Freehold universe include Better to Beg Forgiveness... (2007) which Mark Lardas of the Galveston Daily News praised as an "exciting and violent adventure" and Rogue (2011) which he described as Williamson setting "a new, higher standard for himself". The novel Do Unto Others (2010) made the Wall Street Journal best-seller list in hardcover science fiction and Angeleyes (2016) sold in more than 100,000 copies. Williamson was the editor of Forged in Blood, which was released in September 2017. The book is set in Williamson's Freehold universe and he also wrote or co-wrote five of its 16 stories; other contributors included Larry Correia, Tony Daniel, and Tom Kratman. The stories are linked as they trace the history of a single sword, from its forging in Japan in the third century BC through to Williamson's Freehold of Grainne in the 24th century. Mark Lardas praised the authors for creating a coherent anthology while attempting "something original [by] telling a story through an object." He described the result as an "engaging book". The science fiction review magazine Tangent described the work as a celebration of "soldiers and their tools" that is satisfying to those for whom that premise appeals. A further anthology, Freehold: Resistance, was released in December 2019. Reviewers praised the tight braiding together of the different contributions to form "a mosaic novel masquerading as an anthology". Other works Among works not set in the Freehold