H. Beam Piper


H. Beam Piper is an author of whose works I am particularly fond. I especially like Space Viking , The Cosmic Computer , and Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen . They are all semi-space opera, and have horrible titles, but are a lot of fun. They are all pretty good, but the above three are (for today anyway) my favorites. Most of his books fall into either his Paratime or Terra-Human Future History serieses (seria?).

One further note. Most of his titles seem extremely lame by today's standards, more suited to the type of prose found in books by E. E. "Doc" Smith , than the somewhat more modern prose of Piper, although I like Smith's writing too.


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Douglas Stuart
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
dastuart@cs.utexas.edu