Series
Paratime Police
John F. Carr, H. Beam Piper, Roland J. Green, Eric Fisher & Wolfgang Diehr · 10 novels · 5 novellas · 5 novelettes · 9 short stories · 3 collections · 1 anthology · 1948–2024
The Paratime series written by H. Beam Piper and subsequently by John F. Carr consists of several short stories, one novella, and one novel, all but one of which were originally published in Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John W. Campbell. The series deals with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories, and uses that ability to trade for goods and services that its own, exhausted Earth cannot provide. The protagonists of the stories are the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of paratime travel.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Kalvan(13 works)
- The Paratime Police Chronicles(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Paratime Police at the centre, 2 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1940s3
- 1950s4
- 1960s3
- 1970s0
- 1980s4
- 1990s0
- 2000s2
- 2010s12
- 2020s5
Shape
10 novels · 5 novellas · 5 novelettes · 9 short stories · 3 collections · 1 anthology
5 authors
reads like:science fictionpolitical intrigueparallel universetimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 78% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book23 of 33 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Time Crimedarkest · most intense
- Lord Kalvan of Otherwhenbrightest
- Genesiscalmest