An incredible collection of some of H. Beam Piper's most mind-melting sci fi! From the pen of the master himself, featuring over 600 pages of awesome: The Answer Crossroads of Destiny Day of the Moron Dearest The Edge of the Knife Flight From Tomorrow Genesis Graveyard of Dreams He Walked Around the Horses The Keeper Last Enemy The Mercenaries Naudsonce Omnilingual Operation R.S.V.P. Police Operation Rebel Raider A Slave is a Slave Temple Trouble Time and Time Again
New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge that the s'Srauff are evolved from canine ancestors - and not a Texan alive is about to be scared of a talking dog! But unless he can get them to act, and fast, there won't be a Texan alive, scared or otherwise!
ZNIDD SUDDABIT!"So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then, overnight, war is everywhere. How it will end is in the (merely) two Terran hands of the new governor-general, a man shrewd enough to know that "it is easier to banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." The problem is, the particular piece of knowledge he needs hasn't been used in 450 years. . . .
When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge. Using his personal fortune, he buys a spaceship and becomes a Space Viking, raiding worlds while hunting for his wife's killer. But raiding is not his destiny, and he gradually becomes a trader, starting to build a galactic empire. Before he can achieve his new goals, however, he must still deal with his wife's killer.
Part of H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series, "Last Enemy" follows the work of researcher Dallona of Hadron, who is attempting to determine whether any aspect of the mind, body or soul survives the process of death. However, when her experiments suggest that sentience does outlast the physical body, and she uncovers a link between this immortality and time travel, Dallona is faced with unforeseen consequences she never expected.
Included in this volume are five novelettes from the last decade of Piper's career. The title story, Ministry of Disturbance, appeared in the December 1958 issue of Astounding, (where Cambpell blurbed it, Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it -- and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either ). Also included are A Slave is a Slave, from the April 1962 issue of Analog (There has always been strong sympathy for the poor, said JWC, meek, downtrodden slave -- the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have been misplaced. . . ?); Oomphel in the Sky, from Analog, November 1960 (Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates . . . so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else. . . ?); Omnilingual from the February 1957 issue of Astounding, (To translate writings, you need a key to the code -- and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born . . . how could the Martian be translated. . . ?); and last though hardly least, The Keeper, from Venture Science Fiction, July 1957 (Evil men had stolen his treasure, and Raud set out with his deer rifle and his great dog Brave to catch the thieves before they could reach the Starfolk. That the men had negatron pistols meant little -- Raud was the Keeper. . . .)
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, appeared on the scene with his family of Fuzzies and the passionate conviction that they were not cute animals but little people.
When they published the title story of this collection in April 1947, Astounding Science Fiction said, To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both -- John W. Campbell was a man who really knew what makes SF the appealing thing it is; it's no wonder that he published the story. Also included in this volume are The Mercenaries (Astounding Science Fiction, March, 1950), He Walked Around the Horses (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1948), The Return (Astounding Science Fiction, January, 1954 -- a collaboration with John J. McGuire), and Temple Trouble (Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1951).
Blurbs for books. Days are we write so many of them we could just . . . well. But it's clear we aren't the only ones who feel this way. H. Beam Piper sold Crossroads of Destiny to Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, which published it in their July 1959 issue. No wonder he'd been so interested in the talk of whether our people accepted these theories they said of the story. We aren't at all certain what they meant by that, but you'll probably have a clue. The blurb for Hunter Patrol (Amazing Stories, May 1959 -- a collaboration with John J. McGuire) is equally oblique: Readers who remember the Hon. Stephen Silk, diplomat extraordinary, in Lone Star Planet (FU, March 1957), later published as A Planet for Texans (Ace Books), will find the present story a challenging departure -- this possibility that the history we know may not be absolute. . . . On the other hand, when Dearest appeared in Weird Tales, in March, 1951, the folks at that magazine blurbed it, Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price? An interesting thought, we say. And it seems to us that they had a lot more to say about the story than the SF mags did (above). On the other other hand (it makes us feel like such Moties to say that), when True: The Man's Magazine, published Rebel Raider in December 1950 they said, Jeb Stuart left John Singleton Mosby behind Northern lines 'to look after loyal Confederate people.' But before the war was over, Mosby did a lot more than that. . . . (We think they actually read the piece before they published it, by golly ) And on the lasthand of all, there's no evidence that anybody at the house that published The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes, (1960 -- another collaboration with John J. McGuire) even read The Return -- they didn't say a word about it Harrumph.
There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible ...? An incredible tale of science fiction splendor, woven by one of the genre's avowed masters, H. Beam Piper!
There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are. But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin -- Is there really a Merlin? That's what Conn Maxwell asked, and the question irked those who heard it. Of course it did Merlin meant everything to the folks on the planet Poictesme: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited. But the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't The search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Everybody believed that when this super-gigantic computer was located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for everyone. Conn Maxwell knew different. He had studied the records on Earth and he thought he knew the true facts about this cosmic computer. To tell them would be to panic, so instead he set about a new search in his own way -- with startling results. * H. Beam Piper, author of Space Viking and Little Fuzzy, was rather enigmatic where his personal statistics were concerned (or so the original blurb to this novel said). He lived in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it said, and also that he was an expert on the history and use of hand weapons. When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and that he was highly rated among readers for his skill and imagination. He had published several novels, mostly SF, but also including mysteries and juveniles. But that blurb was written just before he tookhis own life in the noise and nonsense that come out of divorce . . . sigh. Some things happen so large upon our lives that they seem to blot out all that goes before . . .
Dystopias & Supernatural Tales (The Terro-Human Future History Series, The Paratime Series, Uller Uprising, Four-Day Planet, The Cosmic Computer, Space Viking…)
Dystopias & Supernatural Tales (The Terro-Human Future History Series, The Paratime Series, Uller Uprising, Four-Day Planet, The Cosmic Computer, Space Viking…)
This unique collection of sci-fi and fantasy stories has been meticulously edited, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. The Terro-Human Future History Series: Uller Uprising Four-Day Planet The Cosmic Computer Space Viking The Return Omnilingual The Edge of the Knife The Keeper Graveyard of Dreams Ministry of Disturbance Oomphel in the Sky A Slave is a Slave Naudsonce Little Fuzzy The Paratime Series: He Walked Around the Horses Police Operation Last Enemy Temple Trouble Genesis Time Crime Other Novels: Lone Star Planet (A Planet for Texans) Null-ABC (Crisis in 2140) Short Stories: Time and Time Again Flight from Tomorrow The Mercenaries Day of the Moron Dearest The Answer Hunter Patrol Crossroads of Destiny
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
Henry Beam Piper (1904-1964) is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of “Paratime” alternate history tales. Due to U.S.A. copyright laws, several of his later works are still in copyright in many countries. This volume is intended as a supplement to The H. Beam Piper MEGAPACK® and is intended for distribution in Canada and other countries where copyright terms are 50 years or less. Included in this volume are: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen Down Styphon! If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
After several atomic wars the illiterate majority blames 'knowledge' for the damage. An intrigue by the literate minority leads to a civil war aiming at the eventual restoration of universal literacy.
Conn, the son of a melon planter on the planet Poictesme, returns home after five years on Earth, studying. And spying. The planet had been used as a military staging point during the last interstellar war between the Federation and the System States Alliance, and somewhere among the leftover war debris on the planet is rumored to be the supercomputer that won the war. Many believe that this supercomputer can provide the answers to lift Poictesme out of economic stagnation and make it a prosperous place again. Conn has been gathering information just for this purpose - the search is on...
H Beam Piper was a 20th century science fiction writer. He is best known for his Terro-Human Future History series and a series of Paratime alternate history tales. The theme in many of Piper¿s books is the past repeating itself and past events having a direct effect on the future. Naudsonce is a story of "first contact" from Piper's Terrohuman Future History where humans visit the world of a primitive race that has an inscrutable way to communicate. An excerpt from the book reads ¿Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider....¿
The sixth powerful Science Fiction Archive! Edited by the strangely enigmatic Rey Bertran, SFA #6 features the following tales: Missing Link, by Frank Herbert The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson A Bad Day for Vermin, by Keith Laumer Hall of Mirrors, by Frederic Brown Common Denominator, by John MacDonald Doctor, by Murray Leinster The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova The Nothing Equation, by Tom Godwin The Last Evolution, by John Campbell A Hitch in Space, by Fritz Leiber On the Fourth Planet, by J.F. Bone Flight From Tomorrow, by H. Beam Piper Card Trick, by Walter Bupp The K-Factor, by Harry Harrison
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