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* [[Alternate Universe]]: A bare minimum of [[Once Per Episode]] in Paratime. |
* [[Alternate Universe]]: A bare minimum of [[Once Per Episode]] in Paratime. |
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** His first published story, "Time and Time Again" (1947), launched an alternate universe when the dying main character's consciousness was flung thirty years back in time to his then-thirteen-year-old body -- and decided to change history to prevent the [[World War Three]] in which he'd been killed. His plans involved having his father, Blake Hartley, become President in 1960; two later stories, set in '65 and '68, mention President Hartley, so the plan was successful to that extent at least.... |
** His first published story, "Time and Time Again" (1947), launched an alternate universe when the dying main character's consciousness was flung thirty years back in time to his then-thirteen-year-old body -- and decided to change history to prevent the [[World War Three]] in which he'd been killed. His plans involved having his father, Blake Hartley, become President in 1960; two later stories, set in '65 and '68, mention President Hartley, so the plan was successful to that extent at least.... |
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** Another story, a sort of proto-Paratime, had [ |
** Another story, a sort of proto-Paratime, had [[wikipedia:Benjamin Bathurst chr(28)diplomat29|a mysteriously vanished diplomat from our Earth]] stumble into a parallel universe where the American and French Revolutions failed. |
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*** Although the one about the diplomat isn't explicitly labelled a Paratime story, the first specifically Paratime story makes an apparent reference to the incident as having been accidentally caused by a Paratime policeman. At least the dates and a one-sentence description of the events match up. |
*** Although the one about the diplomat isn't explicitly labelled a Paratime story, the first specifically Paratime story makes an apparent reference to the incident as having been accidentally caused by a Paratime policeman. At least the dates and a one-sentence description of the events match up. |
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* [[Hermaphrodite]] |
* [[Hermaphrodite]] |
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* [[Hideous Hangover Cure]]: Not actually hideous ''or'' a hangover cure; the "alcodote-vitimine pill" won't let you get drunk at all. This is rather disappointing to a man who'd like to get wasted enough to forget what he saw and did on his first Space Viking raid. |
* [[Hideous Hangover Cure]]: Not actually hideous ''or'' a hangover cure; the "alcodote-vitimine pill" won't let you get drunk at all. This is rather disappointing to a man who'd like to get wasted enough to forget what he saw and did on his first Space Viking raid. |
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* [[High-Class Glass]] |
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* [[Homage]]: ''[[Traveller]]'' revises the Sword Worlds of ''Space Viking'' to suit the Traveller universe. |
* [[Homage]]: ''[[Traveller]]'' revises the Sword Worlds of ''Space Viking'' to suit the Traveller universe. |
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* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: Freyan oukry, which are used to make Westerns. Most people in the TFH seem to think horses are extinct; a minor news story in ''Four Day Planet'' mentions a movie shot using real horses. |
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: Freyan oukry, which are used to make Westerns. Most people in the TFH seem to think horses are extinct; a minor news story in ''Four Day Planet'' mentions a movie shot using real horses. |
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