Parallel worlds and alternate histories

5 books

Crossroads of DestinyH. Beam Piper · 1959Crossroads of Destiny is a 1959 science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper. A history professor encounters strangers aboard a train who plan a television series dramatizing alternate historical outcomes, and he keeps a strange dollar bill suggesting history itself may have been altered.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

He Walked Around the HorsesH. Beam Piper · 1953A 1953 science fiction story by H. Beam Piper about the historical disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst, an English diplomat who vanished at a Prussian inn in 1809. Told through police reports and statements, it follows the confusion after Bathurst reappears in a world where history unfolded differently.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Last EnemyH. Beam Piper · 1950Last Enemy is a 1950 science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction. It is set in a society where belief in reincarnation and discarnate communication shapes customs, making assassination an honorable profession, and follows scientist Dallona of Hadron's experiments verifying survival after death.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Police OperationH. Beam Piper · 1948A 1948 science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper, originally published in Astounding Science Fiction. It follows a game protector and state troopers investigating a series of mysterious nighttime livestock killings in the countryside, aided by an enigmatic stranger with an unusual rifle.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Temple TroubleH. Beam Piper · 1951Temple Trouble, a 1951 science fiction short story by H. Beam Piper, follows paratime travelers who stage miracles through an idol cult to conceal a uranium mine, until events in the temple begin to slip out of their control.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية