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Books with author H Beam Piper

  • Space Viking

    H. Beam Piper

    Mass Market Paperback (Ace Books, Jan. 1, 1964)
    From their home worlds, a group of civilized planets hidden back of beyond, Space Vikings raid the shattered remnants of the Terran Federation. Lucas Trask began as a debunker of the myth that looting and murder could bring prosperity. After a personal tragedy, he reverses himself, trades his wealth for a ship, and becomes a looter and murderer himself. But that is incidental to the blood-debt he must settle. His enemy, the man who murdered his wife at the moment of marriage, is a would-be empire-builder, hazardous to the health of any planet, anywhere.
  • Space Viking

    H. Beam Piper

    Hardcover (Wildside Press, April 9, 2007)
    When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge. Using his personal fortune, he buys a spaceship and becomes a Space Viking, raiding worlds while hunting for his wife's killer. But raiding is not his destiny, and he gradually becomes a trader, starting to build a galactic empire. Before he can achieve his new goals, however, he must still deal with his wife's killer. A thrilling intergalactic saga!
  • Four-Day Planet

    H. Beam Piper

    eBook (Amazing Sci-Fi Classics, Feb. 13, 2018)
    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.
  • Omnilingual

    H. Beam Piper

    eBook (Jovian Press, Dec. 2, 2016)
    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...?
  • Omnilingual

    H. Beam Piper

    eBook (Perennial Press, March 28, 2016)
    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...?
  • The Cosmic Computer

    H Beam Piper

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 18, 2014)
    I Thirty minutes to Litchfield. Conn Maxwell, at the armor-glass front of the observation deck, watched the landscape rush out of the horizon and vanish beneath the ship, ten thousand feet down. He thought he knew how an hourglass must feel with the sand slowly draining out. It had been six months to Litchfield when the Mizar lifted out of La Plata Spaceport and he watched Terra dwindle away. It had been two months to Litchfield when he boarded the City of Asgard at the port of the same name on Odin. It had been two hours to Litchfield when the Countess Dorothy rose from the airship dock at Storisende. He had had all that time, and now it was gone, and he was still unprepared for what he must face at home. Thirty minutes to Litchfield. The words echoed in his mind as though he had spoken them aloud, and then, realizing that he never addressed himself as sir, he turned. It was the first mate. He had a clipboard in his hand, and he was wearing a Terran Federation Space Navy uniform of forty years, or about a dozen regulation-changes, ago. Once Conn had taken that sort of thing for granted. Now it was obtruding upon him everywhere.
  • Four-Day Planet

    H. Beam Piper

    Hardcover (Wildside Press, Jan. 26, 2007)
    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.
  • Four Day Planet

    H. Beam Piper

    eBook (Jovian Press, Dec. 3, 2017)
    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.
  • Little Fuzzy Illustrated

    Henry Beam Piper

    eBook (, Aug. 18, 2020)
    Little Fuzzy is a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper, now in public domain. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.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.
  • The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper, Science Fiction, Adventure

    H. Beam Piper

    Hardcover (Aegypan, March 1, 2007)
    A running theme in Piper's work is that history repeats itself; past events will have direct and clear analogues in the future.When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and that he was highly rated among readers for his skill and imagination. He had published several novels, mostly SF, but also including mysteries and juveniles. But that blurb was written just before he took his own life in the noise and nonsense that comes out of divorce . . . sigh. Some things happen so large upon our lives that they seem to blot out all that goes before. . . "There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are. "But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin! -- Is there really a Merlin?" That's what Conn Maxwell asked, and the question irked those who heard it. Of course it did! Merlin meant everything to the folks on the planet Poictesme: power, pleasures and profits unlimited. But the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't! The search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Everybody believed that when this super-gigantic computer was located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for everyone. Conn Maxwell knew different. He had studied the records on Earth and he thought he knew the true facts about this cosmic computer. To tell them would be to panic , so instead he set about a new search in his own way -- with startling results.
  • Four-Day Planet and Lone Star Planet

    H. Beam Piper

    (Ace Books, Sept. 6, 1984)
    Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper and Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
  • A Slave is a Slave

    H. Beam Piper

    language (, May 20, 2017)
    What happens when a force from The Galactic Empire arrives on a planet where slaves outnumber masters, and proceeds to outlaw slavery, so the planet will be a proper subject of the Empire...A story set after "Space Viking" in the Galactic Empire which grew out of Trask's League.