H. Beam Piper
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
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Musaicum Books presents to you the complete Paratime series, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all dvices. The Paratime series deal with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories, and uses that ability to trade for goods and services that their own, exhausted Earth cannot provide. Specifically, the Paratime series deals with the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of...
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of planet Zarathustra, itself «owned» by the Chartered Zarathustra Company, which installed basic services and colonial outposts initially, and now reaps the benefits of new discoveries, such as the valuable 'sunstones' mined by Holloway until he befriends a tiny, golden-furred humanoid that he names 'Little Fuzzy.'...
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen recounts the adventures of Corporal Calvin Morrison of the Pennsylvania State Police who is accidentally transported to a more backward parallel universe. Morrison ends up in a significantly different version of Pennsylvania. Initially confused by the old-growth forest and lack of settlements, Morrison meets some friendly peasants who speak an unknown language. In...
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Uller is a corporate world where the natives (silicon humanoids with four arms and a face like a lizard) are ruled by Terro-Human Company. Natives, who outnumber humans, but aren't as advanced, have had it up with the imperialist Company and start a rebellion which will see many dead on both sides.
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In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H. Beam Piper’s excellent Terro-Human Future History series.
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“Oh, no; I’m really here,” the voice, inaudible but mentally present, assured him. “You can’t see me, or touch me, or even really hear me, but I’m not something you just imagined. I’m just as real as … as Smokeball, there. Only I’m a different kind of reality. Watch.”
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There was no stopping General Zarvas’ rebellion. Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac’s glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn’t know the past quite well enough....
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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 . . . .
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Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of H. Beam Piper's Dystopian Novels, Sci-Fi Books and Supernatural Stories. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Terro-Human Future History: 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...
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This eBook edition of «Murder in the Gunroom» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. 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...
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Terro-Human Future History is an account of the next 6,000 years of human history. In 1973, a nuclear war devastates the planet, eventually laying the groundwork for the emergence of a Terran Federation, once humanity goes into space and develops antigravity technology. Table of Contents: Uller Uprising Four-Day Planet The Cosmic Computer Space Viking The Return Omnilingual ...
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ten thousand refugees from the losing side of The Big War fled far beyond the boundaries of the Terran Federation and colonized the planet Excalibur. They had also expanded to a handful of Sword Worlds. On the Sword World Gram, Lucas Trask, Baron of Traskon, is about to marry Elaine Karvall, whose father owns the Karvall steel mills. In addition to being a political alliance, it is also a...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique H. Beam Piper collection, meticulously edited and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: 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...
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"Lone Star Planet" is set on New Texas, where everything from cows to nuts is prefixed. Silk, the unwilling, banished replacement for the Solar League's former ambassador, must solve the murder and stave off an anticipated invasion by the Srauff, a canine alien race, while preventing his own assassination on a planet where the killing of politicians is acceptable, if they «had it coming.» "Four-Day Planet" is set on a planet called Fenris, where extremes in climate have resulted...
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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...
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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.<P> Included in this volume are:<P> Lord...
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THE H. BEAM PIPER MEGAPACK collects 33 novels, novellas, and short stories by H. Beam Piper, including such classics as LITTLE FUZZY, SPACE VIKING, and «He Walked Around the Horses.» <P> Complete contents: <P> INTRODUCTION: MEET H. BEAM PIPER<BR> TIME AND TIME AGAIN (1947)<BR> HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES (1948)<BR> POLICE OPERATION (1948)<BR> THE MERCENARIES (1950)<BR> LAST ENEMY (1950)<BR> FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW (1950)<BR> ...
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