This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen recounts the adventures of Corporal Calvin Morrison of the Pennsylvania State Police who is accidentally transported to a more backward parallel universe. Morrison ends up in a significantly different version of Pennsylvania. Initially confused by the old-growth forest and lack of settlements, Morrison meets some friendly peasants who speak an unknown language. In the middle of a meal, they are attacked by a large raiding party armed with flintlock pistols, which he helps fight off with his police-issue gun. Reinforcements arrive, but in the confusion, he is shot by the beautiful young woman leading them. Morrison finds himself the guest of Prince Ptosphes of Hostigos, whose blonde, blue-eyed daughter Rylla was the one who shot him by mistake, and Prince's people begin to call him Lord Kalvan.
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of planet Zarathustra, itself «owned» by the Chartered Zarathustra Company, which installed basic services and colonial outposts initially, and now reaps the benefits of new discoveries, such as the valuable 'sunstones' mined by Holloway until he befriends a tiny, golden-furred humanoid that he names 'Little Fuzzy.' Little Fuzzy brings his family/tribe to meet Holloway and the lot of them promptly adopt Holloway as well. Upon discovery that the Fuzzies intelligence may qualify them as a sapient species, the Company moves against them.
Musaicum Books presents to you the complete Paratime series, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all dvices. The Paratime series deal 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 their own, exhausted Earth cannot provide. Specifically, the Paratime series deals with the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of paratime travel. Table of Contents: He Walked Around the Horses Police Operation Last Enemy Temple Trouble Genesis Time Crime Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen Down Styphon!
Henry Beam Piper (1904-1964) is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of “Paratime” alternate history tales. Due to U.S.A. copyright laws, several of his later works are still in copyright in many countries. This volume is intended as a supplement to The H. Beam Piper MEGAPACK® and is intended for distribution in Canada and other countries where copyright terms are 50 years or less.<P> Included in this volume are:<P> Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen<BR> Down Styphon!<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
THE H. BEAM PIPER MEGAPACK collects 33 novels, novellas, and short stories by H. Beam Piper, including such classics as LITTLE FUZZY, SPACE VIKING, and «He Walked Around the Horses.» <P> Complete contents: <P> INTRODUCTION: MEET H. BEAM PIPER<BR> TIME AND TIME AGAIN (1947)<BR> HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES (1948)<BR> POLICE OPERATION (1948)<BR> THE MERCENARIES (1950)<BR> LAST ENEMY (1950)<BR> FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW (1950)<BR> OPERATION R.S.V.P. (1951)<BR> DEAREST (1951)<BR> TEMPLE TROUBLE (1951)<BR> GENESIS (1951)<BR> DAY OF THE MORON (1951)<BR> ULLER UPRISING (1952)<BR> NULL-ABC (1953)<BR> THE RETURN (1954)<BR> TIME CRIME (1955)<BR> OMNILINGUAL (1957)<BR> THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE (1957)<BR> THE KEEPER (1957)<BR> LONE STAR PLANET (1958)<BR> GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS (1958)<BR> MINISTRY OF DISTURBANCE (1958)<BR> HUNTER PATROL (1959)<BR> CROSSROADS OF DESTINY (1959)<BR> THE ANSWER (1959)<BR> FOUR-DAY PLANET (1961)<BR> OOMPHEL IN THE SKY (1960)<BR> NAUDSONCE (1962)<BR> LITTLE FUZZY (1962)<BR> A SLAVE IS A SLAVE (1962)<BR> SPACE VIKING (1962)<BR> THE COSMIC COMPUTER (1963)<BR> <P> OTHER WORKS (NOT SCIENCE FICTION)<BR> REBEL RAIDER (1950)<BR> MURDER IN THE GUNROOM (1953) <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the other volumes in this great series, from science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries…and much, much more! <P> NOTE: This is version 3.0 of this ebook, and corrects a number of typos from previous versions.
Readers who remember the Hon. Stephen Silk, diplomat extraordinary, in Lone Star Planet (FU, March 1957), later published as A Planet For Texans (Ace Books), will find the present story a challenging departure—this possibility that the history we know may not be absolute . . . .
“Oh, no; I’m really here,” the voice, inaudible but mentally present, assured him. “You can’t see me, or touch me, or even really hear me, but I’m not something you just imagined. I’m just as real as … as Smokeball, there. Only I’m a different kind of reality. Watch.”
There was no stopping General Zarvas’ rebellion. Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac’s glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn’t know the past quite well enough....
In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H. Beam Piper’s excellent Terro-Human Future History series.