"Code 3" Topic

I'm trying to find a copy of this book. It was published back in the late 60's and is either a compilation of three stories about cops in a future where every car is the size of a bus and the interstates are like the autobahn, or just three connected stories. I had a copy back then but lent it to my neighbor, who was a cop, and he lent it to his friends and I never saw it again. I recall it being a pretty good yarn. Does anyone know who wrote it? Or where I could get a copy?

Not sure about a compilation, but at least one story (by that name--"Code Three") appeared in Analog, February 1963; by the now almost forgotten Hugo award nominee Rick Raphael. Available online as an e-book on many sites, including:

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gutenberg.org/etext/19111

There may be more than the one story in the 1965 volume available here (and probably elsewere):

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The story was also reprinted in Baen's collection "The World Turned Upside Down":

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That should get you started!

Allen

This may also be helpful, and the novel (?) published in 1966 may well be what you once had:

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Allen

Thanks Allen, that's what I was looking for. The Analog story was a short that made up the first three chapters of the novel.

Excellent!

Allen

Analog stories have a long, though scattered, tradition of "growing up" into larger works.

The story was also reprinted in Baen's collection "The World Turned Upside Down"

An excellent collection, by the way.

Rick Raphael's "Code Three" came out in paperback about three years ago latest English edition with a Chris Foss cover IIRC, so it is probably available through one or other Amazon.com – Not sure that it is complete, as there were other stories involved in the saga Rapheal was writing about the future of transport and crime.

SPOILER ALERT!

Love the book – hate the sad ending though.

In some ways the ending is so correct to the way the transport system is heading (both real life and fiction) but I really grown to like the characters and wanted them to live happy every after.