The best feature of Terry Goodkind's novels is not so much they are set in a fantasy world, but that his characters rely on themselves; whatever power they possess is merely a convenience.

One of the problems with conventional fantasy literature is that the setting or magic or creatures or what have you dominates the characters rather than the other way around. Goodkind's fiction is just the opposite.

Richard Cypher, the main hero of his books, loses his war wizard powers and has to rely on his own intelligence, values and strengths. In Faith of the Fallen, an evil sorceress captures Richard and forces him to journey in the capital city of the Fellowship of Order, a quasi-religious dictatorship which preaches man's sinfulness and base nature. The Order's party line is that human beings are weak and sinful and should live only to serve their fellows. One of the best ways to do this is to give all they earn to others less fortunate (depending on the definition of a central committee).

Also, the Order (and those who run it) are the only ones who know best how to allocate wealth and supplies. Those who protest or whom "loyalists" denounce end up imprisoned or dead. Scene after scene in this novel is of bread lines, shabby buildings, and wretched poverty.

Richard counters all this by starting his own underground supply business, and through hard work and skill, he ends up carving a sculpture for the Emperor's Palace which counters everything the Order stands for. Richard constantly urges others to think for themselves, condemns "feeling" as a poor way to set up a government, and demands the right to keep what he earns. He does wind up in prison, even though his new friends pay bribes to get him out, and he still refuses to admit that man is sinful and base.

This is really the central premise of the entire book: a person's file, work, and ideas are their own. and to deprive anyone of these is the worst form of tyranny.

Each of his books has these themes, and I'm sure his next book also would qualify as good libertarian fiction.