@booklet {4045, title = {"And the Truth Shall Set You Free"}, howpublished = {Alternatives}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, pages = {165-98, with an introductory note on 167}, publisher = {Baen}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A eutopia set seventy-five years in the future where the justice system has shifted from concern with treating the accused fairly to insisting on getting the truth. The mantra of the society is that everyone has free choice, and many social and technological means are in place to achieve this, but anyone who chooses to violate the society\&$\#$39;s standards is sterilized and the worst cases are sent to wilderness settlements with no outside support.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Sharon Green (b. 1942)}, editor = {Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams} } @booklet {4097, title = {"The Spirit of Exmas Sideways"}, howpublished = {Alternatives}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, pages = {69-120, with an introductory note on 71-72}, publisher = {Baen}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)}, editor = {Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams} }