Author of Audiobooks - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual (version 2) - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual (version 2) - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
This short story was first written and published in the year 1957, as part of a collection of short science fiction stories in the collection Astounding Science Fiction. Piper's story is unusual in focusing on the problem of archaeology on an alien...
Oomphel in the Sky - H. Beam Piper
Oomphel in the Sky - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government canβt overcome its own bureaucracy to help them,...
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Detective Fiction
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...
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Jack Holloway, a prospector on the planet Zarathustra discovers small furry creatures. These creatures are obviously intelligent, but are they animals or are they sapient? If they are sapient the planet will be declared a protected zone and the...
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
"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 ...?"(quote from Astounding Science Fiction, Feb 1953)...
The Cosmic Computer - H. Beam Piper
The Cosmic Computer - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants...
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper - H. Beam Piper
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper....
Police Operation - H. Beam Piper
Police Operation - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
H. Beam Piper (1904β1964) 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...
Uller Uprising - H. Beam Piper
Uller Uprising - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Uller Uprising is the story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy...
Time Crime - H. Beam Piper
Time Crime - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: 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! (Summary by Gutenberg text)...
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
Four-Day Planet - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
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...
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint in the UN forces when something...
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
An expedition to Mars discovers the remains of an advanced civilization, which died out many thousands of years ago. They recovered books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents. Would the team find their βRosetta Stoneβ that...
Lone Star Planet - H. Beam Piper
Lone Star Planet - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
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...
The Return - H. Beam Piper
The Return - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of humans who have managed to maintain their civilisation despite ferocious cannibal neighbours, the...
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon was no admirer of the Space Vikings,...
A Slave Is a Slave - H. Beam Piper
A Slave Is a Slave - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that they have been overlooked and ignored for the past 500 years or so. This is purely routine work because every...
Naudsonce - H. Beam Piper
Naudsonce - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office expedition was looking for new...
Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and itβs up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is an honorable profession, and...
Temple Trouble - H. Beam Piper
Temple Trouble - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Did you know that our little earth is not limited to the single time line on which we happen to live? There are actually thousands, no millions of parallel times, each existing alongside all the rest. Some extremely primitive, some very advanced,...
The Edge of the Knife - H. Beam Piper
The Edge of the Knife - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Terro-Human Future History is Piper's detailed account of the next 6000 years of human history. 1942, the year the first fission reactor was constructed, is defined as the year 1 A.E. (Atomic Era). In 1973, a nuclear war devastates the planet,...
Lone Star Planet (Version 2) - H. Beam Piper
Lone Star Planet (Version 2) - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
An entire planet colonized by Texans. Can this cause problems? You becha pardner. So strap on your shootin' irons, take a shot of Superbourbon and get ready for some really good barbeque of Supercow. Along with justice; NewTexas style. - Summary by...
Omnilingual (Version 3) - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual (Version 3) - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
This short story published in 1957 is unusual for its time in that its protagonist is a female scientist, and there is no romantic subplot. Helped by some of her teammates on the Mars exploration crew, and hindered by others, she struggles to...