H Beam Piper

Four-Day Planet...where the killing heat of a thousand-hour day drives men underground, and the glorious hundred-hour sunset is followed by a thousand-hour night so cold that only an Extreme Environment Suit can preserve the life of anyone caught outside. 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. This prescient tale will please fans of politically oriented science fiction.

The Paratime Police had a real headache this time Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy-compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines In Time Crime, detectives have to pursue criminals into the past, future, and other possible presents. SF lovers, settle in for a pulse-pounding - and thought-provoking - adventure.

Once, wars were won by maneuvering hired fighting men; now wars are different-and the hired experts are different. But the human problems remain

The planet Zarathustra is listed as uninhabited - which means that the entire planet can be owned by a corporation. That owner is the rich and happy Zarathustra Company - rich and happy, that is, until a prospector named Jack Holloway comes across undocumented species - a tiny, golden-furred little biped that he dubs 'Little Fuzzy.' Not only are the Little Fuzzies cute, they're bright too - in fact, they may be sapient as people are ... and that means everything the Zarathustra company owns on this world is at stake...

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 old men speak of a time many years ago when hundreds of starships were visible in the night-time sky, but now the world is old, poor and forgotten. Raud the Keeper is surprised one day when a local man named Vahr Farg's son brings two men from another world to his home. It seems that the men are scholars who have heard of the great crown that Raud is charged with keeping, and they wish to see it.

Part of H. Beam Piper's much-lauded Paratime series, Police Operation takes place in the distant future. This story focuses specifically on the Paratime police, an elite organization that is charged with the task of protecting the top-secret technology that allows Earth's denizens to travel between parallel universes to trade for goods and resources.

During the System States' War, Poictesme was the general HQ and supply depot for the final thrust at the enemy. When the war ended, the buildings, the munitions, the freeze-dried food supplies, were all abandoned without a thought. Now the colony world is a poverty-stricken agricultural society with only two exports: the fermented products of their world's unique grapes, and the salvaged war equipment, now selling at about 1% of its true value. And, persisting over the decades, is the legend of MERLIN, the super-computer said to have planned the grand strategy which successfully concluded the war. "If we could only find Merlin," the inhabitants said to each other, "all our problems would be solved." Then young Conn Maxwell returned from Earth, with a university degree, and a few clues about the location and the true nature of Merlin. And the sure knowledge that finding the Cosmic Computer would be the worst thing that could possibly happen to his home world.

Uller Uprising is a story about the past repeating itself and past events having a direct effect on the future. Piper based the story on the Sepoy Mutiny. A trading company like the East India Trading Company of the 18th century has been established on Uller. Local officials rule and the humans profit and also try to help better the lives of the locals. Not all of the natives are pleased with this arrangement and a rebellion begins. It is up to Captain Carlos and his men to save the Chartered Company and the Terran Federation.

The Terro-Human series continues as the Federation begins to crumble. How do you arrange to colonize a planet whose inhabitants speak gibberish yet still communicate, in ways humans can't begin to fathom? How can you discipline a race of workers who are sure their managers are controlled by their products and know the end of the world is near? And what happens when a planet dependent on salvaging abandoned hardware runs out of things to scavenge? H. Beam Piper takes his elaborate future-history of man among the stars in a new direction with Naudsonce, Oomphel in the Sky, and the novel-length Graveyard of Dreams.

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race-or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things-but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the 'next step' in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle. Reach into the distant past and discover the fascinating origins of the advanced technology that allows future Earth inhabitants to journey between parallel universes at their whim. This entry in H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series homes in on the Martian colonists who visited Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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...

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...?

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...

A group of explorers from Earth stumbles across the remains of an ancient civilization on Mars. The ruins are full of intriguing documents and artifacts, but the contingent from Earth is unable to decipher them. Will they ever be able to crack the code?

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When the whole ornery state of Texas took off for a new planet more to their liking, New Texas was the result: a rough-and-tumble world where everyone packs a gun and it's legal to shoot politicians (if they deserve it) But now these rugged and independent space pioneers are the targets of an expansive race of aliens. 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