Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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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.
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027244358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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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.
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: E-Artnow
ISBN: 9788027332106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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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.
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher:
ISBN: 1531291511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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I went through the gateway, towing my equipment in a contragravity hamper over my head. As usual, I was wondering what it would take, short of a revolution, to get the city of Port Sandor as clean and tidy and well lighted as the spaceport area. I knew Dad's editorials and my sarcastic news stories wouldn't do it. We'd been trying long enough. The two girls in bikinis in front of me pushed on, still gabbling about the fight one of them had had with her boy friend, and I closed up behind the half dozen monster-hunters in long trousers, ankle boots and short boat-jackets, with big knives on their belts. They must have all been from the same crew, because they weren't arguing about whose ship was fastest, had the toughest skipper, and made the most money. They were talking about the price of tallow-wax, and they seemed to have picked up a rumor that it was going to be cut another ten centisols a pound. I eavesdropped shamelessly, but it was the same rumor I'd picked up, myself, a little earlier...
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1680576453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Before Ewoks... Before Avatar... There Were Fuzzies! A Fine New Edition of a Beloved Science Fiction Classic Prospector Jack Holloway is happy with his solitary life, mining for sunstones in the wilds of backwater planet Zarathustra. Until a small, curious visitor shows up in his shower one day—and proceeds to upend not only Jack’s life, but a whole lot of others’ as well...including the powerful company whose immensely lucrative charter depends on Zarathustra’s having no sapient natives. Rediscover H. Beam Piper’s delightful tale of adorable, indigenous Fuzzies and their human friends pitted against a massive corporation willing to use every trick at its disposal—up to and including genocide—to keep its hold over the planet. This edition includes a foreword by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi, author of Fuzzy Nation and Starter Villain.
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: Start Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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...? An expedition from Earth to Mars discovers a deserted city the remains of an advanced civilization that died out 50 000 years before. The human scientists recover books and documents left behind and are puzzled by their contents. Will they be able to translate them . . . is it even possible?
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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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.
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473216435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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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...
Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789356707627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0441005810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper's delightful books are available for the first time in one volume: Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies And Other People.
