Paratime Police: Complete Sci-Fi Series

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H. Beam Piper. Paratime Police: Complete Sci-Fi Series

Paratime Police: Complete Sci-Fi Series

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He Walked Around the Horses

By H. Beam Piper

Police Operation

By H. Beam Piper

Last Enemy

By H. Beam Piper

Temple Trouble

By H. Beam Piper

Genesis

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Time Crime

First of Two Parts

Part 2

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

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Down Styphon!

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H. Beam Piper

Police Operation

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"And, after that, Louis's death followed as surely as night after day," Bathurst was saying. "And because the French had no experience in self-government, their republic was foredoomed. If Bonaparte hadn't seized power, somebody else would have; when the French murdered their king, they delivered themselves to dictatorship. And a dictator, unsupported by the prestige of royalty, has no choice but to lead his people into foreign war, to keep them from turning upon him."

Madman, eh? Unrealistic beliefs, says Hartenstein? Well, give me madmen who drool spittle, and foam at the mouth, and shriek obscene blasphemies. But not this pleasant-seeming gentleman who sat beside me and talked of horrors in a quiet, cultured voice, while he drank my cognac.

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