The Probability Broach is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer L. Neil Smith. It is set in an alternate history, the so-called "Gallatin Universe"...
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L. Neil Smith (redirect from The Sage of the High Plains)
Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka. He also wrote the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probability Broach, each of which won the Libertarian...
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North American Confederacy (category Novels set on the Moon)
there are eight sequels. The stories take place in a fictional country of the same name. The Probability Broach (1979) The Venus Belt (1980) Their Majesties'...
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List of fictional political parties (redirect from Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party)
- The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith God's Lightning Party - The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Grange Party - The Iron...
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Seveneves (category Novels set on the Moon)
over the possibility that a collision between two pieces of debris might spawn a large number of fragments, thereby increasing the probability of further...
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Then There Were None, The Great Explosion (1962) J. Neil Schulman, Alongside Night (1979) L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach (1979) Neal Stephenson...
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Smith's debut novel The Probability Broach, scientist Dr. Dora Jayne Thorens is a supporting character. In the board game ANDROID, one of the six murder suspects...
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Glasshouse (novel) (category Novels set in the 27th century)
2007, Glasshouse won the Prometheus Award, as well as being nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards. The novel is set in the 27th century aboard...
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principal villain in the historical background of his 1980 libertarian alternative history novel The Probability Broach and its sequels in the North American...
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of social science fiction in the Campbellian/Heinlein tradition include L. Neil Smith who wrote both The Probability Broach (1981) and Pallas, which dealt...
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earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of...
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the defeat of Custer in The Indians Won (1970). Beginning with The Probability Broach in 1980, L. Neil Smith wrote several novels that postulated the...
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America and the Caribbean, see List of country groupings North American Confederacy, a fictional government in the novel The Probability Broach by L. Neil...
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(illustrator), The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel 2006: Joss Whedon (writer-director), Serenity 2007: James McTeigue (director) and the Wachowskis...
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with The Probability Broach, an alternate-history LaPorte is one of the major cities of North America, occupying roughly half the area of Larimer County...
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Terry Pratchett, the 29th book in his Discworld series, and the sixth starring the City Watch, published in 2002. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel...
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The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The novel series follows...
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may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion. It is the sequel to the novel The Peace War (1984) and the novella The Ungoverned...
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According to Hogan, the idea for the book originated around 1976 when he was asked by a friend about whether there was a solution to "the Troubles" in Northern...
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released on April 29, 2008. The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay...
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The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac...
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Ready Player One (category Novels set in the 2040s)
reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the game itself. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in...
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The Unincorporated Man is a science fiction novel by Dani and Eytan Kollin. It was published in 2009. The novel focuses on society, politics and economics...
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The action takes place in a balkanized UK, about halfway into the 21st century. The novel was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1996. The world...
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Rose Wilder Lane (redirect from The Discovery of Freedom)
Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith in which the United States becomes a libertarian state in 1794 after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and the overthrowing...
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describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another...
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are granted full citizenship in the eponymous political entity. In the first novel in the series, The Probability Broach, a gorilla, Olongo Featherstone-Haugh...
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alternate history novels The Probability Broach (1980) and The American Zone (2002). Hans Morgenthau used propertarianism to characterize the connection between...
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published by Jim Baen. Winner of 1992 Prometheus Award, the novel was written as a tribute to the science fiction fandom and includes many of its well-known...
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visions of two alternative futures, one utopian and the other dystopian. The Probability Broach (1980) by L. Neil Smith – A libertarian or anarchic utopia...
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