In the first of a long series of hallowed stories, former military engineer (and noncomformist) Manse Everard is recruited by the Time Patrol to prevent time travelers from making major changes to history. (Don’t worry, history bounces back from the small stuff.)
—Michael Main
If you went back to, I would guess, 1946, and worked to prevent your parents’ marriage in 1947, you would still have existed in that year; you would not go out of existence just because you had influenced events. The same would apply even if you had only been in 1946 one microsecond before shooting the man who would otherwise have become your father.

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  1. “Time Patrol” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1955.
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  2. audio reading.“Time Patrol” by Poul Anderson (Tantor Audio, March 2020) [audio].
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  1. Czech.
    “Stráž času” [Time guard] by Poul Anderson, in Stráž času (Talpress, 1997).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Veronika Volhejnová
  2. Dutch.
    “De tijdpatrouille” [The timepatrol] by Poul Anderson, in Avontuur in het verleden (Het Spectrum, 1966).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson
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  3. French.
    “La patrouille du temps” [The patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, Fiction, March 1956.
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  4. French: revised translation.“La patrouille du temps” [The patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in La patrouille du temps ( Le Bélial, February 2005).
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    Pierre-Paul Durastanti
  5. German.
    “Die Zeitpolizei” [The timepolice] by Poul Anderson, in Die Zeitpolizei, edited by René Oth (Luchterhand, August 1985).
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  6. German.
    “Zeitpatrouille” [Timepatrol] by Poul Anderson, in Die Chroniken der Zeitpatrouille (Heyne, 1997).
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  7. Hungarian.
    “Idő-őrjárat” [Time-patrol] by Poul Anderson, in Időjárőr (Valhalla Páholy, 1994).
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  8. Italian.
    “Everard cronodetective” [Everard timedetective] by Poul Anderson, 3-part serial, Urania #252–254, 26 March to 23 April 1961.
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  9. Korean.
    “타임 패트롤” [Time patrol] by Poul Anderson, in 타임 패트롤 (시공사, November 1995).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson as by 폴 앤더슨
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by 강수백
  10. Lithuanian.
    “Laiko patrulis” [Time patrol] by Poul Anderson, in Laiko patrulis (Eridanas, 1995).
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  11. Portuguese.
    “A patrulha do tempo” [The patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in Os guardiães do tempo (Francisco Alves, 1984).
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  12. Romanian.
    “Patrula timpului” [Patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in Almanah Anticipația 1987, edited by Ioan Albescu and Viorica Podină (Știință & Tehnică, 1986).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Dorin A. Groza
  13. Romanian.
    “Patrula timpului” [Patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in Păzitorii timpului (Editura Nemira, 1999).
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  14. Russian.
    “На страже времён” [On guard of time], as by Пол Андерсон, in Звезда #8, 1981 [citation data from https://fantlab.ru/work5848].
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson as by Пол Андерсон
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  15. Russian.
    “Патруль Времени” [Time patrol], as by Пол Андерсон, in Короли ночи (Новое Время, 1993) [citation data from https://fantlab.ru/edition24746].
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson as by Пол Андерсон
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  16. Russian.
    “Патруль Времени” [Time patrol], as by Пол Андерсон, in Патруль времени (Александр Корженевский, 1995) [citation data from https://fantlab.ru/edition18995].
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson as by Пол Андерсон
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  17. Serbian.
    “Vremenska Patrola” [Time patrol] by Poul Anderson, in Čuvari vremena (Jugoslavija, 1977).
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  18. Spanish.
    “La patrulla del tiempo” [The patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in Guardians of Time (E.D.H.A.S.A., 1964).
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  19. Spanish.
    “Patrulla del tiempo” [Patrol of time] by Poul Anderson, in La patrulla del tiempo (Ediciones B, July 2000).
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  20. Ukranian.
    “Патруль часу” [Time patrol], as by Пол Андерсон, in Патруль часу (Видавництво Жупанського, November 2020).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson as by Пол Андерсон
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Олег Лесько