The Probability Broach

I mentioned this book in a comment a few days ago. I had heard about it from Dale Amon at Samizdata.

A commenter mentions its being serialized online.

Originally. I conceived The Probability Broach in the mid-70s as a summary of all I'd ever learned about libertarianism, and, more importantly, the promise it offers of a better, more peaceful, more prosperous world than our authority-battered species has known for the last 10,000 years.

I know, it sounded boring, even then, like a political tract. So I determined to make it a political tract as full of sex, violence, and general silliness as I could cram in between the serious bits. And it worked. Although I'd never sold anything before except a handful of gun magazine articles, the novel was picked up by the first publisher that read it, and the rest, as they say, is history...

That's the original author, L Neil Smith. The book has been released as a graphic novel, and that is available online.

It looks pretty interesting. Besides the libertarian premise, it has some Colorado hooks. The story opens at the corner of Colfax & York (I rented an old house a block away from there to use as a rehearsal studio in the early eighties). And on page 7, we meet "Propertarians."

Posted by jk at July 30, 2008 5:42 PM