Project Gutenberg 2006-04-11 Public domain in the USA. 140 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly Time Crime Produced from Astounding Science Fiction Magazine February and March 1955 Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Time Crime" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The story revolves around the operations of the Paratime Police, tasked with investigating a sinister slave trade that transgresses multiple timelines. The protagonist, Kiro Soran, a guard captain, uncovers a chilling link between slaves bought at a plantation and their origins on a different temporal line, leading to a complex investigation that intertwines with various characters while grappling with moral dilemmas. The opening of "Time Crime" introduces readers to a plantation on the Third Level Esaron Sector, where Kiro Soran and Dosu Golan, the plantation manager, are involved in the purchase of a hundred slaves from a Calera dealer. As Soran observes the slaves, he realizes they are not local but from the Kholghoor Sector in India, suggesting they were kidnapped and brought through time for sale. This discovery prompts Soran to take action, alerting the Paratime Police and setting the stage for a deeper investigation into the criminal activities of the mysterious slave traders known as the Wizard Traders. The opening establishes a tense atmosphere and the gravity of the situation, hinting at the broader implications of time travel and ethics in the context of slavery and commerce. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 256010 256019 2024-09-08T06:12:14.174086 2023-09-08T08:27:56.363562 text/html text/html 255861 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 693915 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 761782 2024-09-08T06:12:19.503065 application/epub+zip 765482 2024-09-08T06:12:15.600081 application/epub+zip 144252 2024-09-08T06:12:14.733082 application/epub+zip 874959 2024-09-08T06:12:22.474050 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 858348 2024-09-08T06:12:18.783088 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239362 2022-09-08T14:56:07.312742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239793 239689 2024-09-08T06:12:13.598101 2023-09-08T08:27:55.731524 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 239668 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 90738 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 239664 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 90717 2020-12-13T20:56:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21039 2024-09-08T06:12:22.613067 application/rdf+xml 10797 2024-09-08T06:12:15.092105 image/jpeg 2860 2024-09-08T06:12:14.911087 image/jpeg 744160 2024-09-08T06:12:14.231134 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia