Hunter Patrol

Hunter Patrol

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Hunter Patrol by John Joseph McGuire, H. Beam Piper

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1959

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Hunter Patrol

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Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price? [This etext was produced from Amazing Stories, May 1959. There is no evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.]

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He managed to convince everybody of his altruism, integrity and wisdom," Walter said. "It was almost blasphemous to say anything against him. I really don't understand how it happened...."

"Well, what's he been doing with his power?" Benson asked. "Wise things, or stupid ones?"

"I could be general, and say that he has deprived all of us of our political and other liberties. It is best to be specific," Anthony said. "Gregory?"

"My own field--dimensional physics--hasn't been interfered with much, yet. It's different in other fields. For instance, all research in sonics has been arbitrarily stopped. So has a great deal of work in organic and synthetic chemistry. Psychology is a madhouse of ... what was the old word, licentiousness? No, lysenkoism. Medicine and surgery--well, there's a huge program of compulsory sterilization, and another one of eugenic marriage-control. And infants who don't conform to certain physical standards don't survive. Neither do people who have disfiguring acciden

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Another re-run of time travel paradoxes resolved by the changes to the past creating exactly the future that is desired to be avoided. The writing and characterization are pretty well done. Worth the read, but don't expect anything joltingly new here.
A short story that skillfully weaves circumstances and timelines so that people die, then don't die, kill, and don't kill and all the while the space-time continuum heals itself.

The plotting and writing are excellent.