The American Zone
by Smith, L. NeilEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-10-04
Publisher(s): Tor Books
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Summary
Since publication of his Prometheus Award- winning The Probability Broach, L. Neil Smith has been widely considered the best libertarian science fiction writer in the world. he American Zone already nominated for the Prometheus, is the story of Win Bear, a detective who discovers a portalthe probability broachto alternate worlds. Win has settled in the North American Confederacy, on an alternate world where George Washington was shot, sending history in a very different turn.Someone is bombing buildings, many people are being killed, and the libertarian paradise of the Confederacy is threatened. Its up to Win to find those behind the violence and stop them before more people die. Hell find adventure, excitement, and danger aplenty before he brings the guilty to justice and restores peace and tranquility to his adopted world.
Author Biography
L. Neil Smith is the two time winner of the Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction for his novels Pallas (1993) and The Probability Broach (1980). As founder and National Coordinator of the Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus, publisher of the on-line magazine The Libertarian Enterprise, and a Life member of the National Rifle Association, Smith is renowned for his prominence in the Libertarian movement, of which he has been a part of for more than thirty-five years. Author of more than twenty books, Smith has been hailed for his ability to combine adventure, humor, and rivetingly original political concepts to create more compellingly than any other writer, novels that embody Libertarian concepts. He currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and daughter.
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“L. Neil Smith’s Probability Broach. . . contained ideas I wish could be shouted to the world, ideas that come from the American heritage of freedom and which could bring still greater individual liberty, greater technical progress.”—Vernor Vinge, author of A Fire upon the Deep
"There's something tremendously attractive about the idea of a world where what you do is nobody's business but your own, and that's the kind of world that L. Neil Smith, award winning libertarian author and spokesperson, created in The Probability Broach and returns us to in The American Zone."—Ernest Lilley SFRevu
"The most freewheeling of the new libertarians."--Reason Magazine
"The Probability Broach is a brilliant, subversive novel."—Prometheus
"There's something tremendously attractive about the idea of a world where what you do is nobody's business but your own, and that's the kind of world that L. Neil Smith, award winning libertarian author and spokesperson, created in The Probability Broach and returns us to in The American Zone."—Ernest Lilley SFRevu
"The most freewheeling of the new libertarians."--Reason Magazine
"The Probability Broach is a brilliant, subversive novel."—Prometheus
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