Books with author H.Beam Piper

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.' Little Fuzzy brings his family/tribe to meet Holloway and the lot of them promptly adopt Holloway as well. Upon discovery that the Fuzzies intelligence may qualify them as a sapient species, the Company moves against them.

Little Fuzzy is a science fiction novel set on the planet Zarathustra, a world rich in natural resources being exploited by a huge chartered company from Earth. Jack Holloway is a free-lance sunstone miner working on the outskirts of civilization when he encounters a small, fuzzy animal which turns out to be remarkably intelligent. He soon begins to suspect that “Little Fuzzy” and his family are more than just clever animals, but in fact a new sapient alien species. Such a proposition is directly opposed to the interests of the chartered Zarathustra Company, and conflict ensues.Published in 1962, Little Fuzzy rapidly gained popularity due to the charming nature of the little aliens and the well-handled tensions of the plot. It is today considered to be a classic of the genre, though perhaps considered to fall into the category of juvenile fiction. It was followed by a sequel, Fuzzy Sapiens in 1964.

This meticulously edited Sci-Fi collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Terro-Human Future History Series:Uller UprisingFour-Day PlanetThe Cosmic ComputerSpace VikingThe ReturnOmnilingualThe Edge of the KnifeThe KeeperGraveyard of DreamsMinistry of DisturbanceOomphel in the SkyA Slave is a SlaveNaudsonceLittle FuzzyThe Paratime Series:He Walked Around the HorsesPolice OperationLast EnemyTemple TroubleGenesisTime CrimeOther Novels:Lone Star Planet (A Planet for Texans)Null-ABC (Crisis in 2140)Short Stories:Time and Time AgainFlight from TomorrowThe MercenariesDay of the MoronDearestThe AnswerHunter PatrolCrossroads of Destiny

"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.

Lucas Trask of Traskon was not an admirer of the Space Vikings; raiding, pillage, and killing were not avocations to his liking. And on the long-awaited day of his marriage to the lovely Lady Elaine, all unpleasant thoughts seemed far away. But Lucas was to be suddenly awakened to a world of chaotic violence, where murder followed murder, and the only motive to rival avarice was revenge. For Lucas, the old life was dead, and the new life he had chosen led out into the trackless realms of galactic space and the surfaces of pillaged planets with one objective always in mind—the death of a renegade spaceman. SPACE VIKING is an epic of interstellar adventure that is remembered as one of H. Beam Piper’s best works.

The search for a lost super-computer named MERLIN said to have once ended war and brought prosperity becomes the obsession of a poverty-stricken society. Merlin means everything to them: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited. "If we could only find Merlin," the inhabitants say to each other, "all our problems would be solved." But young Conn Maxwell has 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.

"Four-Day Planet" is set on a planet called Fenris, where extremes in climate have resulted in an extremely small population with very few off-world contacts. The protagonist is a 17-year-old reporter who fights to overturn the corrupt 'government' and coercive mercantilist monopoly on 'tallow-wax', the sole export from Fenris. "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."