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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.

About the Author

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.

Notes

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.

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

Edited by James Frenkel

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Design by Jane Adele Regina

eISBN 9781466828070

First eBook Edition : July 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, L. Neil.

The probability broach / L. Neil Smith.

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ISBN 0-765-30153-9