Project Gutenberg 2006-07-18 Public domain in the USA. 232 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam Temple Trouble Produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1951. Produced by Greg Weeks, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Temple Trouble" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. The narrative explores themes of time travel, religion, and the manipulation of belief systems through the lens of commercial interests. It focuses on a group of paratimers who strategically manipulate a local religion to secure mining concessions, illustrating the tension between ancient traditions and modern exploitation. The plot unfolds in the realm of the Proto-Aryan Sector, where Stranor Sleth operates as a resident agent for the Transtemporal Mining Corporation. A crisis arises when the local king, Kurchuk, begins to favor the worship of a new god, Muz-Azin, leading to unrest among the people. As the traditional rituals involving the worship of Yat-Zar fall into disfavor, and the sacred rabbits start dying from disease—a phenomenon that locals interpret as a divine punishment—Sleth, alongside Verkan Vall from the Paratime Police, must act. They orchestrate a dramatic intervention to rescue captured priests and restore Yat-Zar's influence, showcasing an intricate blend of deception, theology, and power dynamics. Ultimately, the story highlights the intersection of power, belief, and economic interests, raising questions about the nature of divinity and the lengths to which individuals will go to secure their objectives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 71.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 99877 2025-06-08T06:57:26.380108 text/html 96559 2006-07-18T16:57:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 417532 2006-07-18T16:58:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 488590 2025-06-08T06:57:30.904072 application/epub+zip 488985 2025-06-08T06:57:28.208057 application/epub+zip 95375 2025-06-08T06:57:26.996077 application/epub+zip 567163 2025-06-08T06:57:32.957101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 559190 2025-06-08T06:57:30.240041 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 131845 2022-09-09T06:13:58.924809 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 92970 2025-06-08T06:57:26.067068 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 92909 2006-07-18T16:55:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 35505 2006-07-18T16:58:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18852 2025-06-08T06:57:33.112043 application/rdf+xml 10116 2025-06-08T06:57:27.612067 image/jpeg 2824 2025-06-08T06:57:27.336069 image/jpeg 476683 2025-06-08T06:57:26.410119 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia