The Influence of Piper's Paratime On Other Art
Piper himself was not well known as an author. His suicide in 1964 prevented further works in the series from coming out after Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. However, Ace Science Fiction republished many of his works in the later 1980s, where they influenced a new generation of readers. Roland J. Green and John F. Carr wrote a sequel to Kalvan, Great King's War. Carr also wrote Kalvan Kingmaker and Siege of Tarr-Hostigos, and is currently working on Queen Rylla’s Crown, a sequel to Siege.
Other works influenced heavily by Piper's Paratime include Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic series, the G.O.D., Inc. trilogy by Jack Chalker, Michael Kurland's Perchance (first volume of the not-yet-continued Elsewhen series), Michael McCollum's A Greater Infinity, and the GURPS Infinite Worlds role-playing game setting.
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