Time Crime
Unknown
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Description
H. Beam Piper's story, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction in February and March 1955, follows the Paratime Police. Their task is to police the countless parallel timelines, and here they hunt a gang hiding on one line among billions. The blurb in the magazine calls the hunt a real headache for the police.
The opening places readers on a plantation timeline, where clerks count gold coins and a manager haggles over the price of enslaved workers. The police must conform to local custom while they search, even when it sickens them. The story mixes police work, time travel, and moral strain, as a small team tracks criminals who can vanish into another world.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 227 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |