
The American Zone
L. Neil Smith won the Prometheus Award three times. Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds—some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses.
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781466828070
- Topics
Awards
- Prometheus AwardShortlisted(2002)
Other awarded books from L. Neil Smith
- Pallas (1993)1 win · 5 score
- The Forge of the Elders (2001)1 win · 5 score
- The Probability Broach (2001)1 win · 5 score
- Blade of p'Na (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- Bretta Martyn (1998)0 wins · 2 score
- Ceres (2010)0 wins · 2 score
- Henry Martyn (1991)0 wins · 2 score
- The Crystal Empire (2001)0 wins · 2 score
- The Gallatin Divergence (1985)0 wins · 2 score
- The Nagasaki Vector (2001)0 wins · 2 score
- Tom Paine Maru (2008)0 wins · 2 score
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