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Paratime by H. Beam
Piper
INTRODUCTION
John F. Carr
Here, at long last, are the Paratime tales (with the exception of the Lord Kalvan
stories*) by H. Beam Piper together in one volume. These stories, first published
in Astounding Science Fiction during the late forties and early fifties, are the
foundation of Piper's reputation as one of the great sf adventure writers. Together
they display Piper's lifelong interest in history, reincarnation and alternate
worlds, and the time theories of J. W. Dunne.

*The first two Lord Kalvan novelettes, "Gunpowder God" and "Down Styphon,"
were published in Analog in the sixties. In 1965 they were collected, together
with a third novelette, and published as Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen by Ace
Books.


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Interestingly enough, H. Beam Piper's first published story, "Time and Time
Again," was a time travel piece: It begins with a soldier on a World War III
battlefield who is at the point of death when he is projected back into his
childhood persona. The rest of the story deals with his attempts to influence the
"future" of his childhood, and later of mankind. The story has an
autobiographical feel and Piper does a good job of evoking rural Pennsylvania,
where he himself was raised.

Until the late fifties, most of H. Beam Piper's fiction was concerned with time
travel and alternate worlds, stories such as "He Walked Around the Horses."
"Genesis." "Police Operation." "Flight From Tomorrow," and others. Other
science fiction writers, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Keith Laumer, Poul
Anderson, etc., have dealt with time travel and paradox, but noneтАФwith the
possible exception of Richard MeredithтАФhave been so obsessed with it.