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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9520735" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Absolutely yes. The incomplete Enchanter is funny fantasy. Like, was-an-influence-on-Pratchett funny. Modern-day academics discover how to enter worlds of literature and fantasy. Things go wrong. Complications ensue. H. Beam Piper wrote af in the 1950s-60s. The Parstime stories share a setting where the people of one alternate Earth have the tech to travel to others. They take care to keep this a secret, with the Paratime Police doing the work of fixing leaks, tracking down people using the tech for bad ends like slavery, and so on. In the novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, the title character, Pennsylvania State Trooper Calvin Morrison, gets accidentally shifted to a timeline where ancient Indo-Europeans went east rather than west, giving rise to an old but low-tech society where PA is here. And one minor god’s priesthood has a monopoly on gunpowder. Whoo boy do complications ensue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9520735, member: 6671663"] Absolutely yes. The incomplete Enchanter is funny fantasy. Like, was-an-influence-on-Pratchett funny. Modern-day academics discover how to enter worlds of literature and fantasy. Things go wrong. Complications ensue. H. Beam Piper wrote af in the 1950s-60s. The Parstime stories share a setting where the people of one alternate Earth have the tech to travel to others. They take care to keep this a secret, with the Paratime Police doing the work of fixing leaks, tracking down people using the tech for bad ends like slavery, and so on. In the novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, the title character, Pennsylvania State Trooper Calvin Morrison, gets accidentally shifted to a timeline where ancient Indo-Europeans went east rather than west, giving rise to an old but low-tech society where PA is here. And one minor god’s priesthood has a monopoly on gunpowder. Whoo boy do complications ensue. [/QUOTE]

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