Paratime Police — by H. Beam Piper

• 1948
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Science fiction author H. Beam Piper is regarded as one of the genre's most inventive practitioners, and this short but gripping tale puts his remarkable creative powers on full display. "He Walked Around the Horses" takes the real-world case of the ...

• 1948
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Part of H. Beam Piper's much-lauded Paratime series, "Police Operation" takes place in the distant future. This story focuses specifically on the Paratime police, an elite organization that is charged with the task of protecting the top-secret techno...

• 1950
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Part of H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series, "Last Enemy" follows the work of researcher Dallona of Hadron, who is attempting to determine whether any aspect of the mind, body or soul survives the process of death. However, when her experiments s...

• 1951
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  Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions -- but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter.......

• 1955
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The heroes of this story, Verken Vall and his wife Hadron Dalla, are ready to embark on a long-overdue vacation, when the Paratime Police send them both to investigate rumors of slavery in the Esaron Sector. Like many of Piper's stories, this is a...

• 1981
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The Paratime series of several stories dealing with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories. It uses that ability to trade for goods and services that their exhausted Earth cannot provide. S...