
A lone Time Patrolman is thrust into a desperate mission: stop a rogue time‑traveler who has stolen a chronokinetic projector and kidnapped a vital operator. The patrol’s strict rules warn that any major change to the past can ripple forward, so Brek Halliday must retrieve the woman and undo the interference before history is irrevocably altered.
Prepared in a hypnorobot tank, Brek absorbs the language, customs and even the clothing of the American West in the 1880s. Armed with a pair of six‑guns that blend oddly well with the frontier, he steps out of the temporal vortex into a sun‑baked New Mexico town, where the saloon doors swing open to a world that feels both familiar and foreign. With only a vague energy signature to guide him, he must track the escaped felon Sagginer through dusty streets, all while keeping his own presence from tearing the timeline apart.
Language
en
Duration
~25 minutes (24K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-06-22
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1927–1987
A prolific mid-century science fiction and fantasy writer, he became especially well known for the Lord Darcy stories, where detective fiction meets an alternate world shaped by magic. He also wrote heavily for the pulp magazines of the 1950s and 1960s and collaborated with other major SF writers.
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