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Temple Trouble Kindle Edition

by H. Beam Piper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
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    March 24, 2011
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TPUPES
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 199 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 58 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

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Fantasyman
5.0 out of 5 stars Rollicking Good Fun, part of the Paratime Series
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2013
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H. Beam Piper wasn't afraid to tackle tough questions about politics and religion, or, capitalism versus socialism, or slavery versus paid labor, as long as he could tell a story. One thing about Piper's Paratime series, there are no cheap outs. You don't have any lazy fly balls drifting into the outfield, no, when Piper tells a story, he lets it rip. Everything is hard ball. Turn a page and there is a corporate entity using religion to control the political situation of a primitive country. Turn another and there is the exploitation of natural resources with no benefit to the people that own them. Flip yet another and there is a corporate takeover using false gods, religion, even biological terrorism. It's capitalism run wild in an alternate world.

H Beam Piper's worlds of Paratime take us to many destinations, all of them logical extensions of past history, if certain things hadn't quite gone as they did. I won't bother to explain Paratime, heck, I can't figure the logic out myself. I just enjoy reading the stories.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy reading 📚
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021
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Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me, a will written fantasy Sci-Fi thriller adventure novella by H.Beam Piper. The characters are interesting and will developed. The story line is violent, intense, and full of deception racing to the conclusion. I would recommend this novella to readers of fantasy. Enjoy reading 🔰2021 😠
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Johnny L Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014
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dick is a great storyteller
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Karl Janssen
3.0 out of 5 stars Get me to the church on (para)time
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014
Paratime Police officer Verken Vall is at it again. H. Beam Piper’s science fiction novella Temple Trouble was originally published in the April 1951 issue of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In this fourth installment of the Paratime series, Vall is once again tasked with maintaining order and keeping the peace in one of the myriad alternate timelines that exist in a different space-time reality than our own. On many of these parallel timelines, in the Fourth Level Proto-Aryan Sector, there exists a pre-mechanical civilization that worships a six-armed god named Yat-Zar. The same bureaucracy that governs the Paratime Police has co-opted this god for their own ends and installed their transtemporal agents as priests within his temples. They use this religious subterfuge to conceal the fact that they are mining these worlds’ uranium and transporting it back to their own timeline. In Piper’s Paratime universe, there are all sorts of rules and regulations that restrict transtemporal travelers from messing with other timelines, but apparently raping other civilizations of their resources is OK as long as one can go about it undetected. On one particular timeline, however, a political coup has overthrown the existing king in favor of a new ruler, who establishes a new god, Muz-Azin, in place of the convenient Yat-Zar. Some of the priests/miners are captured and sentenced to brutal torture and human sacrifice. It’s up to Vall and his team to rescue these prisoners before the bloodshed starts.

If that sounds confusing as all get out, I assure you Piper’s telling is even more bewildering. The first half of Temple Trouble is basically a disorienting mess of proper nouns which, typical of ‘50s sci-fi, are composed primarily of X’s, K’s, and V’s. It’s difficult if not impossible to keep track of who exactly belongs to which religious sect or political faction. In Piper’s works, overwhelming the reader is intentional; he draws you into his complex world by subjecting you to full immersion. Thankfully, the second half of the book is basically a rescue operation, and an entertaining one at that. As usual, Piper combines familiar action-movie gunplay with mind-bending futuristic gadgets. The fictional universe of Paratime is a brilliant construction, and Piper exploits his creation’s possibilities to the fullest. He never settles for the most simple or convenient solution to a story, but always opts for a complicated plot with political intricacy and philosophical depth.

If you’ve never read H. Beam Piper, this is not the way to introduce yourself to his work. You’d be better off starting with the earlier and more user-friendly novella Police Operation. Those who already enjoy Piper’s writing and are familiar with his Paratime universe will have to admit that this is not the best installment in the series, but it does deliver enough of its author’s visionary imagination and wry sense of humor to satisfy ardent fans. Verken Vall has had more interesting and exciting adventures than this, but a ride-along with him on Paratime patrol is never a waste of time.
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SGL
4.0 out of 5 stars Forth level mineral products vs Proto-Aryan fisionables in para-time
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2012
Zat-Zar was an idol with three eyes made of turquoise as big as door knobs and six arms in his right hands it held a sword with a flame shaped blade, a jeweled object vaguely phallic and by the ears a rabbit. In the left hands a bronze torch, a big goblet and a set of scales with an egg and a skull. prefers rabbit sacrifices. the rival idol Muz-Azin is a crocodile with wings like a bat and a lot of knife blades on it's tail. oh Muz-Azin fancies human sacrifice. So what you have are to modern mining companies operating in para-time fighting for limited resources along the time lines. This is not the best of his para-time stories but does add an interesting theological aspect to the story. It was written in 1951 which gives it a distinctively different feel of good versus evil . In 1951 we were still dealing with communism abroad and technology gave gave us the first commercial computer(room sized univac 1) oh let's not forget they also asked J Edgar Hoover to be the baseball commissioner, he declined the post.
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