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More than a 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the 'normal' world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the 'alternate' reality of the North American Confederacy are facing their own crises. *** People are disappearing across the Probability Broach, including Win Bear's closest friend, Featherstone-Haugh (who heads the Confederacy), and even Win's wife and assistant. *** show more Ill (and deadly) winds are blowing and threatening to destroy the Probability Broach as we know it. Win Bear, keeping one step ahead of lethal assassins and fighting incredible odds, must solve multiple apparantly disparate cases that all seem to lead to the end of freedom. *** show lessTags
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A pretty good sequel to "The probablilty broach" though not quite as good and not albe to stand on its own.
The best of the whole book was a description of flying through space that was so well written and realistic that it made me sick to my stomach just reading it.
It's been about 10 years since the previous novel, 1999, and in our dimension Nolan Davidson of the Propertarian Party (obviously a nod to David Nolan of the Libertarian Party) is about to be elected President, the first such propertarian, due to the people of the USA being so bettered thanks to free trade with the Confederacy on the other side of the probability broach.
In the North American confederacy, things appear to be looking up like always, but our hero Win Bear show more begins a new private detective investigation as many of the leading people in their stateless society are mysteriously missing. No long after he leaves his pregnant wife (he gives me a a sexy introduction to what basically is a 1980s attempt at describing an iPad) she goes missing too.
Worth reading, and seeing how the new technology that the free market brings makes it possible for him to get out a very tight spot. show less
The best of the whole book was a description of flying through space that was so well written and realistic that it made me sick to my stomach just reading it.
It's been about 10 years since the previous novel, 1999, and in our dimension Nolan Davidson of the Propertarian Party (obviously a nod to David Nolan of the Libertarian Party) is about to be elected President, the first such propertarian, due to the people of the USA being so bettered thanks to free trade with the Confederacy on the other side of the probability broach.
In the North American confederacy, things appear to be looking up like always, but our hero Win Bear show more begins a new private detective investigation as many of the leading people in their stateless society are mysteriously missing. No long after he leaves his pregnant wife (he gives me a a sexy introduction to what basically is a 1980s attempt at describing an iPad) she goes missing too.
Worth reading, and seeing how the new technology that the free market brings makes it possible for him to get out a very tight spot. show less
Why? why? why? What a stupid book. Bad capital-L Libertarian capitalist SF if anyone cares.
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L. Neil Smith is the three-time winner of the Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction for his novels Pallas (1993), Forge of the Elders (2000), 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 show more the National Rifle Association, Smith is renowned for his prominence in the Libertarian movement, of which he has been a part 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. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1980
- People/Characters
- Win Bear; Olongo Featherstone-Haugh; Koko Featherstone-Haugh; Lucy Kropotkin; Voltaire Malaise
- Important places
- the Asteroid Belt, Ceres Central
- Dedication
- To my parents, Les and Marie Smith, and to treasured memories of the lives and works of H. Beam Piper and Karl Bray.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 3
