H. Beam Piper

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Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Omnilingual (version 2)

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...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 53 minutes

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Science Fiction

500

H. Beam Piper - Time Crime

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)

Mark Nelson 4 hours 12 minutes

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Science Fiction

423

H. Beam Piper - Naudsonce

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...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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Science Fiction

451

H. Beam Piper - Four-Day Planet

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...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 20 minutes

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Science Fiction

440

H. Beam Piper - Temple Trouble

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...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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Science Fiction

451

H. Beam Piper - Slave Is a Slave

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...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 27 minutes

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Science Fiction

532

H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy

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...

tabithat 5 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

H. Beam Piper - Last Enemy

An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is...

Mark Nelson 2 hours 39 minutes

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Science Fiction

465

H. Beam Piper - Edge of the Knife

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...

jfmarchini 1 hour 48 minutes

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Detective Fiction

564

H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom

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...

Anthony Wilson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Science Fiction

563

H. Beam Piper - Uller Uprising

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...

Ralph Snelson and 4 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

528

H. Beam Piper - Space Viking

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...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 37 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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