The Probability Broach (30 page)
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Authors: L. Neil Smith
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| 170 | 1946 | Clarissa MacDougall Olson born, Laporte. |
| 172 | 1948 | Wilder re-elected (third term); limb-regeneration demonstrated. |
| 173 | 1949 | Lunar expedition establishes colony; laser pistol sights. |
| 176 | 1952 | A. Rand elected, becomes first president to travel to Moon. |
| 177 | 1953 | Gallatinist and Hamiltonian revolutions rock Africa. |
| 178 | 1954 | Jennifer Ann Smythe born (stasis delay). |
| 179 | 1955 | Eugene Guccione invents power cell. |
| 180 | 1956 | Russians fire on Antarctican colonists; Continental Congress issues warning; Czar declares war; Rand re-elected (second term). |
| 181 | 1957 | Russians attack Alaska, aid Hamiltonians in Hawaii, invade Japan; Admiral Heinlein wins decisively at Bering Straits; Russians suffer huge losses in Antarctica, Japan, Hawaii. |
| 182 | 1958 | “Operation Sequoyah”: heavy wireless and television, tons of written propaganda employed against Russian homeland. |
| 183 | 1959 | Lunar colonists beam continuous transmissions into Russia; government collapses; Czar disappears. |
| 184 | 1960 | Hamiltonians attempt Lunar coup, survivors are “spaced;” Robert LeFevre elected president. |
| 188 | 1964 | LeFevre re-elected (second term); Dora Jayne Thorens born, San Francisco. |
| 192 | 1968 | Mars colony, Coprates Canyon; “None of the Above” wins election. |
| 194 | 1970 | Probability Broach discovered in search for faster-than-light drive. |
| 196 | 1972 | John Hospers elected president; asteroid colonies established. |
| 197 | 1973 | First stable Broach. |
| 200 | 1976 | Bicentennial; Dissolutionist Faction; Hospers re-elected (second term). |
| 201 | 1977 | First “large-sample” Broach. |
| 202 | 1978 | John Jay Madison founds Alexander Hamilton Society, Laporte. |
| 203 | 1979 | Hamiltonians lose final foothold in Uganda. |
| 204 | 1980 | Hospers re-elected (third term); Extrasolar radio signals detected. |
| 208 | 1984 | Jennifer A. Smythe elected president. |
| 210 | 1986 | First contact with human (V. Meiss) on other side of Broach. |
| 211 | 1987 | First human travels through Broach (E. W. Bear, Denver); Hamiltonian conspiracy; Seventh Continental Congress convened. |
L. Neil Smith is the Prometheus Award-winning author of twenty books, including
The Probability Broach, The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, The Lando Calrissian Adventures, Pallas, and Bretta Martyn.
A Life member of the National Rifle Association since 1973, founder and National Coordinator of the Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus, and publisher of an online magazine,
The Libertarian Enterprise,
he has been active in the libertarian movement for thirty-nine years and is its most prolific and widely published living writer. Smith is an enthusiastic competition shooter (NRA Hunter’s Pistol) and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, Cathy, and their daughter, Rylla.
The Probability Broach, The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, The Lando Calrissian Adventures, Pallas, and Bretta Martyn.
A Life member of the National Rifle Association since 1973, founder and National Coordinator of the Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus, and publisher of an online magazine,
The Libertarian Enterprise,
he has been active in the libertarian movement for thirty-nine years and is its most prolific and widely published living writer. Smith is an enthusiastic competition shooter (NRA Hunter’s Pistol) and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, Cathy, and their daughter, Rylla.
denotes a Tor book
with Aaron Zelman
Compiled from the
Encyclopedia of North America,
TerraNovaCom Channel 485-A, by Edward William Bear of Denver, with the kind permission of the editors.
Encyclopedia of North America,
TerraNovaCom Channel 485-A, by Edward William Bear of Denver, with the kind permission of the editors.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
THE PROBABILITY BROACH
Copyright © 1980, 1996 by L. Neil Smith
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by James Frenkel
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eISBN 9781466828070
First eBook Edition : July 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, L. Neil.
The probability broach / L. Neil Smith.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-765-30153-9
1. Private investigators—Colorado—Denver—Fiction. 2. Libertarianism—Fiction. 3. Denver (Colo.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.M537555 P76 2001
813’.54—dc21
813’.54—dc21
2001036576
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