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Part of H. Beam Piper's much-lauded Paratime series, "Police Operation" takes place in the distant future. This story focuses specifically on the Paratime police, an elite organization that is charged with the task of protecting the top-secret technology that allows Earth's denizens to travel between parallel universes to trade for goods and resources..
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- Canonical title*
- Polizeiaktion [Erzählung]
- Original title
- Police Operation [novelette]
- Original publication date
- 1948-07
- People/Characters
- Verkan Vall
- First words
- John Strawmyer stood, an irate figure in faded overalls and sweat-whitened black shirt, apart from the others, his back to the weathered farm-buildings and the line of yellowing woods and the cirrus-streaked blue October sky.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Just like that Flying Saucer thing."
- Original language*
- Englisch
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