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Paratime Police Books in Order

Paratime Police contains 9 books, published between 1948 and 2020. The first book is He Walked Around the Horses (1948) and the newest is Paratime Wars (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1948–2020
Pages on record
1,206 in 7 of 9 books
Reading time
20–30 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,206 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

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Paratime Police gathers 9 catalogued books published between 1948 and 2020, with Henry H. Beam Piper credited on 8 of them. Five titles carry dates from 1948 to 1955: He Walked Around the Horses (1948), Police Operation (1948), Last Enemy (1950), Temple Trouble (1951) and Time Crime (1955). Collections and later volumes follow decades afterwards, among them Paratime! Collected Paratime Stories (2009), Tales of Paratime (2016), Paratime Parasites (2019) and Paratime Wars (2020). Catalogue subjects record science fiction, slavery, and mystery and detective fiction.

How many Paratime Police books are there?

Paratime Police has 9 books, released between 1948 and 2020.

Paratime Police Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Paratime Police books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Police Operation by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 2 of the Paratime Police series (1948)
  2. Cover of Last Enemy by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 3 of the Paratime Police series (1950)
  3. Cover of Temple Trouble by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 4 of the Paratime Police series (1951)
  4. Cover of Time Crime by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 5 of the Paratime Police series (1955)
  5. Cover of Paratime! Collected Paratime Stories by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 7 of the Paratime Police series (2009)
  6. Cover of Paratime Parasites by Henry H. Beam Piper, book 9 of the Paratime Police series (2019)
  1. 1
    He Walked Around the Horses1948 · confirmed 1/4
    1948–
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  2. 2
    Police Operation1948 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/4
    194856
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  3. 3
    Last Enemy1950 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1950124
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  4. 4
    Temple Trouble1951 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/4
    195156
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  5. 5
    Time Crime1955 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1955116
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  6. 7
    Paratime! Collected Paratime Stories2009 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009260
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  7. 8
    Tales of Paratime2016 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016274
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  8. 9
    Paratime Parasites2019 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019320
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  9. 10
    Paratime Wars2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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Do you have to read Paratime Police books in order?

You should read the Paratime Police books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Paratime Police book also stands alone.

Where to start with Paratime Police

Start with He Walked Around the Horses (1948), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Paratime Police book?

Paratime Wars (2020) is the newest Paratime Police book released so far.

Is there a new Paratime Police book coming?

No next Paratime Police book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Paratime Police at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Paratime Police title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Paratime Police books have appeared about one every 9 years on average.
Length
1,206 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 124 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Paratime Police books, 3 of 9, were published in the 1950s.
Attribution
Of the 9 titles, 8 are credited to Henry H. Beam Piper. One title carries no credit.

What the Paratime Police books are about

3 of the 9 Paratime Police books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.