This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kalvan Series, Paratime Series, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Hos-Hostigos, Minor Characters in the Kalvan Series, Zarthani, Great Kings’ War, Kalvan Kingmaker, Siege of Tarr-Hostigos. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Paratime series written by H. Beam Piper consists of several short stories, one novella, and one novel; they 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 their own, exhausted Earth cannot provide. Specifically, the Paratime series deals with the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of paratime travel. These stories were written by Piper: A sequel to Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Great Kings’ War, was written by Roland J. Green and John F. Carr. Some persons dispute He Walked Around The Horses and Genesis being Paratime stories, however Genesis is the account of a group of Martian colonists arriving on Earth between 75,000 and 100,000 years ago exactly as described by Piper in several of his Paratime Police stories. All of the names used in Genesis follow the conventions used in all of the Paratime stories but not used in Piper’s other stories. Additionally the events in He Walked Around The Horses are referred to by Tortha Karf in the story Police Operation where he describes the event briefly to Verkan Vall. In Piper’s Paratime universe, there are an infinite number of timelines, but in each timeline, events occurred differently. They are grouped into five Levels, based on the probabilities of success of an attempt by Martians to colonize Earth 75,000 to 100,000 years ago; humans, on timelines where they are present, are the descendants of the Martian colonists. Thi…More: http: booksllc.net ?id=920011

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