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New Releases by Henry Beam Piper

Henry Beam Piper is the author of Temple Trouble Illustrated (2021), Dearest (2021), Space Viking (2021), Last Enemy (2021), Murder in the Gunroom Illustrated (2021).

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Temple Trouble Illustrated

release date: Oct 03, 2021
Temple Trouble Illustrated
Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....

Dearest

release date: Jun 18, 2021
Dearest
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Space Viking

release date: Apr 27, 2021
Space Viking
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Last Enemy

release date: Apr 27, 2021
Last Enemy
The last enemy was the toughest of all--and conquering him was in itself almost as dangerous as not conquering. For a strange pattern of beliefs can make assassination an honorable profession!We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic.

Murder in the Gunroom Illustrated

release date: Feb 07, 2021
Murder in the Gunroom Illustrated
The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner''s verdict was \"death by accident.\" But Gladys Fleming had her doubts. Enough at any rate to engage Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand--better known just as Jeff--private detective and a pistol-collector himself, to catalogue, appraise, and negotiate the sale of her late husband''s collection.

A Slave is a Slave (Illustrated)

release date: Feb 02, 2021
A Slave is a Slave (Illustrated)
There has always been strong sympathy for the poor, meek, downtrodden slave--the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have been misplaced...?

Time Crime Illustrated

release date: Jan 25, 2021
Time Crime Illustrated
This short novel by H. Beam Piper was originally published in two parts in Astounding Science Fiction, February and March of 1955, and also appeared in the 1981 collection Paratime. In the world in which Time Crime takes place, human society has developed the technology to move laterally between parallel universes. The heroes of this story, Verken Vall and his wife Hadron Dalla, are ready to embark on a long-overdue vacation when the Paratime Police send them both to investigate rumors of slavery in the Esaron Sector. Like many of Piper's stories, this is a police procedural, set in the world of the future.

Naudsonce Illustrated

release date: Dec 17, 2020
Naudsonce Illustrated
Short Story originally published in Analog (Jan 1962):

Omnilingual (Illustrated)

release date: Dec 09, 2020
Omnilingual (Illustrated)
\"Omnilingual\" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper. Originally published in the February 1957 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, it focuses on the problem of archaeology on an alien culture.

Police Operation Annotated

release date: Nov 05, 2020
Police Operation Annotated
H. Beam Piper's classic science fiction short story, forming part of his Paratime series. Hunting down the beast, under the best of circumstances, was dangerous. But in this little police operation, the conditions required the use of inadequate means!

Last Enemy Illustrated

release date: Oct 18, 2020
Last Enemy Illustrated
The story begins at a dinner party given by Garnon of Roxor. The party is a voluntary discarnation feast, or suicide party. Garnon has been planning his discarnation for years, but has decided to proceed now, to assist in the scientific experiment of Dallona of Hadron. Immediately after Garnon's death, a nearby sensitive, already placed in a hypnotic trance, begins to channel Garnon's spirit, giving proof positive that disincarnate individuals are fully conscious, telepathically sensitive, capable of telepathic communication and capable of exercising choice in the vehicle for their reincarnation.

Time Crime-Original Edition(Annotated)

release date: Sep 03, 2020
Time Crime-Original Edition(Annotated)
This short novel by H. Beam Piper was originally published in two parts in Astounding Science Fiction, February and March of 1955, and also appeared in the 1981 collection Paratime. In the world in which Time Crime takes place, human society has developed the technology to move laterally between parallel universes. The heroes of this story, Verken Vall and his wife Hadron Dalla, are ready to embark on a long-overdue vacation, when the Paratime Police send them both to investigate rumors of slavery in the Esaron Sector. Like many of Piper's stories, this is a police procedural, set in the world of the future.

Rebel Raider Illustrated

release date: Jun 16, 2020
Rebel Raider Illustrated
In the gripping Civil War story "Rebel Raider," H. Beam Piper takes a break from the science fiction that was his typical stock-in-trade and beams readers back into the midst of the conflict that ripped the United States asunder. The tale focuses on the exploits of Confederate leader John Singleton Mosby, who gained acclaim as a ruthless and tactically brilliant raider.

The Cosmic Computer Illustrated

release date: May 01, 2020
The Cosmic Computer Illustrated
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, \"The Junkyard Planet\

The Cosmic Computer (Junkyard Planet)

release date: Jul 08, 2019
The Cosmic Computer (Junkyard Planet)
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Omnilingual

release date: Jul 31, 2018
Omnilingual
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...''

Time and Time Again

release date: Jul 04, 2018
Time and Time Again
Time and Time Again by Henry Beam Piper 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-- Time and Time again. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Ullr Uprising

release date: Jan 22, 2018

Genesis

release date: Jan 22, 2018

Little Fuzzy

release date: Jul 19, 2017
Little Fuzzy
Henry Beam Piper (1904 - 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of \"Paratime\" alternate history tales. He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper. Piper did not live to see how influential he was to other science fiction writers. The story revolves around determining whether a small furry species discovered on the planet Zarathustra is sapient, and features a mild libertarianism that emphasizes sincerity and honesty.

Collected Works of Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

release date: May 25, 2017
Collected Works of Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
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Graveyard of Dreams

release date: Feb 16, 2017
Graveyard of Dreams
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...

The Keeper

release date: Sep 16, 2016
The Keeper
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...

Little Fuzzy - Scholar's Choice Edition

release date: Feb 16, 2015
Little Fuzzy - Scholar's Choice Edition
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100 Classic Science Fiction Stories: Volume Two

release date: Nov 13, 2013
100 Classic Science Fiction Stories: Volume Two
100 science fiction stories make up this massive collection. Works and authors include: The Dictator by Milton Lesser Diplomatic Immunity by Robert Sheckley Direct Wire by Clee Garson Disaster Revisited by Darius John Granger Disqualified by Charles Louis Fontenay Dogfight--1973 by Dallas McCord Reynolds The Doorway by Evelyn E. Smith The Dope on Mars by John Michael Sharkey The Double Spy by Dan T. Moore Double Take by Richard Wilson Dr Heidenhoff''s Process Droozle by Frank Banta Duel on Syrtis by Poul William Anderson The Dueling Machine by Benjamin William Bova and Myron R. Lewis Earthsmith by Milton Lesser The Eel by Miriam Allen DeFord The Ego Machine by Henry Kuttner Egocentric Orbit by John Cory The Einstein See-Saw by Miles John Breuer Elegy by Charles Beaumont The Envoy, Her by Horace Brown Fyfe Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance The Eternal Wall by Raymond Zinke Gallun The Ethical Way by Joseph Farrell The Executioner by Frank Riley Exile from Space by Judith Merril Expediter by Dallas McCord Reynolds The Eyes Have It by Philip Kindred Dick Fair and Warmer by E. G. von Wald Faithfully Yours by Lou Tabakow Far from Home by J.A. Taylor A Feast of Demons by William Morrison Fee of the Frontier by Horace Brown Fyfe Feet Of Clay by Phillip Hoskins Feline Red by Robert Sampson Felony by James Causey Field Trip by Gene Hunter Per Cent Prophet by Gordon Randall Garrett A Filbert Is a Nut by Rick Raphael A Fine Fix by R. C. Noll The First Day of Spring by Mari Wolf Flamedown by Horace Brown Fyfe Flight From Tomorrow by Henry Beam Piper Through Tomorrow by Stanton Arthur Coblentz Fly By Night by Arthur Dekker Savage The Flying Cuspidors by V. R. Francis Foreign Hand Tie by Gordon Randall Garrett Forever by Robert Sheckley Forget Me Nearly by Floyd L. Wallace Forsyte''s Retreat by Winston Marks Foundling on Venus by John de Courcy and Dorothy de Courcy The Fourth Invasion by Henry Josephs Freudian Slip by Franklin Abel The Frightened Planet by Sidney Austen Frigid Fracas by Dallas McCord Reynolds G-r-r-r...! by Roger Arcot The Gallery by Roger Phillips Graham Gambler''s World by John Keith Laumer Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith Generals Help Themselves by M. C. Pease Genesis by H. Beam Piper George Loves Gistla by James McKimmey Get Out of Our Skies! by E. K. Jarvis The Gift Bearer by Charles Louis Fontenay A Gift For Terra by Fox B. Holden The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn Goodbye, Dead Man! by Tom W. Harris Graveyard of Dreams by Henry Beam Piper The Graveyard of Space by Milton Lesser The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang Hall of Mirrors by Fredric Brown Ham Sandwich by James H. Schmitz The Hammer of Thor by Charles Willard Diffin Hanging by a Thread by Gordon Randall Garrett Ending by Fredric Brown and Dallas McCord Reynolds The Happy Man by Gerald Wilburn Page The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg Hard Guy by H. B. Carleton Hate Disease by William Fitzgerald Jenkins The Heads of Apex by Francis Flagg Heist Job on Thizar by Gordon Randall Garrett The Hell Ship by Raymond Alfred Palmer The Cosmos by Clifford Donald Simak The Helpful Hand of God by Tom Godwin Helpfully Yours by Evelyn E. Smith Horn''s X-Ray Eye Glasses by Dwight V. Swain High Dragon Bump by Don Thompson High Man by Jay Clarke The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel The Hitch Hikers by Vernon L. McCain The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt The Holes and John Smith by Edward W. Ludwig Holes, Incorporated by L. Major Reynolds Home is Where You Left It by Adam Chase Homesick by Lyn Venable Homo Inferior by Mari Wolf The Honored Prophet by William E. Bentley The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller

The Cosmic Computer

release date: Apr 21, 2008

Ministry of Disturbance

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Ministry of Disturbance
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 best seen in Uller Uprising. Piper wrote about the past repeating itself and past events having a direct effect on the future. Little Fuzzy is considered to be Piper's best work. "Ministry of Disturbance," appeared in the December 1958 issue of Astounding. An excerpt reads as follows. "When it opened, Captain-General Dorflay of the Household Guard was waiting for him, with a captain and ten privates. General Dorflay was human. The captain and his ten soldiers weren't. They wore helmets, emblazoned with the golden sun and superimposed black cogwheel of the Empire, and red kilts and black ankle boots and weapons belts, and the captain had a narrow gold-laced cape over his shoulders, but for the rest, their bodies were covered with a stiff mat of black hair, and their faces were slightly like terriers'. (For all his humanity, Captain-General Dorflay's face was more like a bulldog's.) They were hillmen from the southern hemisphere of Thor, and as a people they made excellent mercenaries. They were crack shots, brave and crafty fighters, totally uninterested in politics off their own planet, and, because they had grown up in a patriarchal-clan society, they were fanatically loyal to anybody whom they accepted as their chieftain.,"

Day of the Moron and the Edge of the Knife

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Day of the Moron and the Edge of the Knife
Two stories from the American science fiction author. In Day of the moron, a nuclear accident devastates New York. In The edge of the knife, a story from Piper's Terro-Human Future History series, a professor sees flashes of the future.
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