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The American Zone

L. Neil SmithSeries: North American Confederacy
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Pages
352
Year
2001
Language
English
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group

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In the North American Confederacy...

People are free--really free. Free to do as they please, whether it be starting a business, running for elected office, or taking target practice in the back forty. There's not a whole lot of government, nor is there a lot of crime, because everyone who wants to carries a gun, and isn't afraid to use it.

But someone has bombed the Endicott Building, killing hundreds of people, and Win Bear, the only licensed detective in the confederacy, has to find out who did this dastardly deed, and why. Because whoever did it has already shown their willingness to commit more terrorist acts, no matter how many people are hurt.

And that can't go on, or soon the confederacy will be just as the bad old United States--and that is something they want to avoid at all costs.

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Extended Details

  • SeriesNorth American Confederacy #7

    Reviews

    "The most freewheeling of the new libertarians."
    Reason Magazine
    "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
    "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

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