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.

Pirate and privateer Phoebus Krumm, is brought out of retirement and into action for a mission to thwart a deadly new threat from the same interstellar empire that had destroyed his home and killed his wives. He is joined by friends Bretta Islay (aka the dread pirate Bretta Martyn) and Hanebuth Tarrant on a mission that will change the balance of power in the Saggitarius Cluster. This graphic novel is the third story set in L. Neil Smith's "Henry Martyn" universe.

*** 2010 Nominee for the Prometheus Award *** In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete and win on mankind's homeworld-an ambition that many say will cripple or kill her. ** Her older brother Wilson is equally set on quitting his job as a surveyor's apprentice to become an asteroid hunter, a calling fraught with the promise of fabulous riches and the danger of sudden death. He will find a full share of romance and disappointment, love and loss,...