Time Crime

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Time Crime

by H. Beam Piper

EN·~3 hours·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total
1

Transcriber's note.

3:40:47
2

Illustrated by Freas

0:01

Description

The Paratime Police are tasked with policing not just one world, but the endless web of alternate timelines that branch off from every choice. When a gang of smugglers slips through a hidden probability line, the chase becomes a needle‑in‑a‑haystack problem on a cosmic scale. Guard captain Kiro Soran, clad in a scarlet‑lined cloak, leads the pursuit, balancing the rigid duties of his order with the unsettling reality of a multi‑verse crime scene.

The story opens on a distant plantation where human lives are bought and sold like cargo. As Soran and his crew confront the slavers, they must navigate the brutal economics of the Zarkantha sector while questioning the morality of their own involvement. The tense negotiations, the clash of cultures, and the looming mystery of where the captured workers truly came from set the stage for a gritty, high‑concept adventure that explores both the far‑flung possibilities of parallel worlds and the very human cost of exploitation.

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Language

en

Duration

~3 hours (211K characters)

Series

Produced from Astounding Science Fiction Magazine February and March 1955

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-04-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

H. Beam Piper

H. Beam Piper

1904–1964

A self-taught science fiction writer with a gift for big ideas, he built vivid futures and alternate histories that still feel adventurous and sharp. He is especially remembered for the Terro-Human Future History stories, the Paratime tales, and the beloved novel Little Fuzzy.

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