H. Beam Piper

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General Fiction

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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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Science Fiction

511

H. Beam Piper - Cosmic Computer

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...

Mark Nelson 7 hours 27 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

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

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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Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper.

Mark Nelson 5 hours 15 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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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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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

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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General Fiction

526

H. Beam Piper - Oomphel in the Sky

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 can’t overcome...

Mark Nelson 1 hour 57 minutes

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Science Fiction

551

H. Beam Piper - Omnilingual

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...

Mark Nelson 1 hour 56 minutes

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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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