H. Beam Piper

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1948
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Fuzzies

1 - Little Fuzzy (Dec-1986)
2 - Fuzzy Sapiens (Aug-1984)
3 - Fuzzies and Other People (Aug-1984)

Paratime Police

1 - He Walked Around the Horses (1948)
2 - Police Operation (1948)
3 - Last Enemy (1950)
4 - Temple Trouble (1951)
5 - Time Crime (1955)
6 - Paratime (1981)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • He Walked Around the Horses

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    Paratime Police - 1

    Science fiction author H. Beam Piper is regarded as one of the genre's most inventive practitioners, and this short but gripping tale puts his remarkable creative powers on full display. "He Walked Around the Horses" takes the real-world case of the ...

  • Police Operation

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    Paratime Police - 2

    Part of H. Beam Piper's much-lauded Paratime series, "Police Operation" takes place in the distant future. This story focuses specifically on the Paratime police, an elite organization that is charged with the task of protecting the top-secret techno...

  • Last Enemy

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    Paratime Police - 3

    Part of H. Beam Piper's popular Paratime series, "Last Enemy" follows the work of researcher Dallona of Hadron, who is attempting to determine whether any aspect of the mind, body or soul survives the process of death. However, when her experiments s...

  • Temple Trouble

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    Paratime Police - 4

      Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions -- but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter.......

  • Dearest

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Day of the Moron

    It's natural to trust the unproven word of the fellow who's "on my side"--but the emotional moron is on no one's side, not even his own. Once, such an emotional moron could, at worst, hurt a few. But with the mighty, leashed forces Man employs now. H...

  • Time Crime

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    Paratime Police - 5

    The heroes of this story, Verken Vall and his wife Hadron Dalla, are ready to embark on a long-overdue vacation, when the Paratime Police send them both to investigate rumors of slavery in the Esaron Sector. Like many of Piper's stories, this is a...

  • The Edge of the Knife

    This story was rejected by two top-flight science-fiction editors for the same reason: "Too hot to handle." "Too dangerous for our book." ...

  • A Planet for Texans

    When the whole ornery state of Texas took off for a new planet more to their liking, New Texas was the result: a rough-and-tumble world where everyone packs a gun and it's legal to shoot politicians (if they deserve it)! But now these rugged and inde...



  • Hunter Patrol

    Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a...

  • The Answer

    In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H. Beam Piper’s excellent Terro-Human Future History series....

  • Oomphel in the Sky

    Since logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates...so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic or anything else in order to prevent a planetary disa...

  • Space Viking

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    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 pers...

  • Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

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    The Paratime Police patrolled the vast number of alternate time-dimensions. Their aim was to keep the existence of the alternate Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other. But the Time Police made mistakes some...

  • Paratime

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    Paratime Police - 6

    The Paratime series of several stories dealing with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories. It uses that ability to trade for goods and services that their exhausted Earth cannot provide. S...

  • Federation

    LITTLE FUZZIES ... SPACE VIKING ... GUNPOWDER GOD ... FUZZY SAPIENS ... At the time of his tragic death, H. Beam Piper was rapidly becoming acknowledged as peer and heir of authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Like Heinlein and Asimov...

  • The Fuzzy Papers

  • First Cycle

  • Uller Uprising

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...



  • The Cosmic Computer

    Conn Maxwell told them: "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,...

  • Fuzzies and Other People

    Fuzzies - 3

    "There were still so many things Fuzzies had to learn." ...that's the final line of H. Beam Piper's classic Fuzzy Sapiens, where the story broke off twenty years ago. Following Piper's tragic suicide in 1964, there were persistent rumors that he h...

  • Fuzzy Sapiens

    Fuzzies - 2

    H. Beam Piper's sequel to the science fiction classic Little Fuzzy.The small fuzzy species discovered on the planet Zarathustra has been declared sapient, but now that the Fuzzies are protected by law, the humans who have colonized Zarathustra h...

  • Empire

    An anthology of five stories by H. Beam Piper: The Edge of the Knive A Slave is a Slave Ministry of Disturbance The Return (with John J. McGuire) The Keeper...

  • Little Fuzzy

    Fuzzies - 1

    Zarathustra was a Class-III uninhabited planet, and the chartered Zarathustra Company owned it lock, stock, and barrel. They developed it, exploited it, and reaped huge profits without any interference from the Colonial Government.   But then, o...

  • 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 his hand, the coroner's verdict was...

  • Complete Fuzzy

    More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper's delightful books are available for the first time in one volume: Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzz...

  • The Complete Paratime

    From H. Beam Piper, the creator of the Terrohuman Future History and the bestselling Fuzzy novels, come the parallel worlds of Paratime -- collected for the first time in one volume.

    Infinite worlds allowed for infinite evil -- unless the doorway t...

  • Flight From Tomorrow

    There was no stopping General Zarvas’ rebellion. Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac’s glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn’t know the past quite well enough.......

  • Graveyard Of Dreams

    Conn, the son of a melon planter on the planet Poictesme, returns home after five years on Earth, studying. And spying. The planet had been used as a military staging point during the last interstellar war between the Federation and the System States...



  • Crossroads Of Destiny

    In this classic slice of golden-age science fiction from prolific writer H. Beam Piper, a chance meeting on a train leads to a fascinating conversation about alternate universes and counterfactual history. But is it all merely idle chit-chat -- or co...

  • Time and Time Again

    John W. Campbell was a man who really knew what makes SF the appealing thing it is; it's no wonder that he published the story. Also included in this volume are "The Mercenaries" (Astounding Science Fiction, March, 1950), "He Walked Around the Hor...

  • Ministry of Disturbance and Other Science Fiction

    Also included are "A Slave is a Slave," from the April 1962 issue of Analog ("There has always been strong sympathy for the poor," said JWC, "meek, downtrodden slave -- the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it po...

  • Junkyard Planet

    This novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. ...

  • Genesis

    Genesis is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H. Beam Piper is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of H. Beam Piper then we hi...

  • Omnilingual

    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...?...

  • A Slave is a Slave

    There has always been strong sympathy for the poor, meek, downtrodden slave -- the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have been misplaced...?...

  • The Other Worlds of H. Beam Piper

    The collected short story to novella length works by H. Beam Piper that are not part of his "Terro-human" future history. Time and Time Again - After a blast in a nuclear waer, Alan Hartley wakes up thirty years earlier in his own 13-year-old body. ...

  • Null-ABC

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V38, the Pulp Writers - Henry Beam Piper

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V38 is a collection of ten Sci-fi stories from one of the best pulp si-fi writers of the past century. Included are: Time and Time Again, The Mercenaries, Flight from Tomorrow, Operation R.S.V.P, Dearest , Day of the Moron, Th...



  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V39, the Pulp Writers - Henry Beam Piper

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V39 is a collection of ten Sci-fi stories from one of the best pulp si-fi writers of the past century. Included are: The Edge of the Knife, Omnilingual, Naudsonce, Oomphel in the Sky, Graveyard of Dreams, A Slave is a Slave, M...

  • Rebel Raider

    No Description Available Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 - c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories a...

  • Four-Day Planet

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    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 kn...

  • Lone Star Planet

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    Texans have long been known as ornery pioneers who like to have plenty of space to themselves. In Lone Star Planet, science fiction luminary H. Beam Piper posits a future where Texans have colonized a planet (known as New Texas) and pass their days w...

  • Naudsonce

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

H. Beam Piper has published 44 books.

H. Beam Piper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rebel Raider, was published in September 2015.

The first book by H. Beam Piper, He Walked Around the Horses, was published in January 1948.

Yes. H. Beam Piper has 2 series.
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