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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.
This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard
Planet.
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme,
dubbed "The Junkyard Planet" because of all the military equipment
left behind after the last war. Conn claims he has found the
location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been
left behind. But is Merlin real, or just a myth? And will Conn's
knowledge of the computer save Poictesme -- or tear his world
apart?
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 independent space
pioneers are the targets of an expansive race of aliens. Is the
Solar League's new ambassador tough enough to steer them back to
Earth's embrace?
This volume collects all 6 of Piper's short stories and novelets
set in the Paratime universe. Included are these classic tales: "He
Walked Around the Horses," "Police Operation," "Time Crime," "Last
Enemy," "Temple Trouble," "Genesis."
"ZNIDD SUDDABIT "
So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet
and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison
lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that
the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the
imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then,
overnight, war is everywhere.
How it will end is in the (merely) two Terran hands of the new
governor-general, a man shrewd enough to know that "it is easier to
banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." The problem
is, the particular piece of knowledge he needs hasn't been used in
450 years....
"ZNIDD SUDDABIT "
So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet
and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison
lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that
the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the
imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then,
overnight, war is everywhere.
How it will end is in the (merely) two Terran hands of the new
governor-general, a man shrewd enough to know that "it is easier to
banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." The problem
is, the particular piece of knowledge he needs hasn't been used in
450 years....
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.
This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard
Planet.
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme,
dubbed "The Junkyard Planet" because of all the military equipment
left behind after the last war. Conn claims he has found the
location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been
left behind. But is Merlin real, or just a myth? And will Conn's
knowledge of the computer save Poictesme -- or tear his world
apart?
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 independent space
pioneers are the targets of an expansive race of aliens. Is the
Solar League's new ambassador tough enough to steer them back to
Earth's embrace?
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Null-ABC (Hardcover)
H.Beam Piper, John J. McGuire
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R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible
for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'"
is held responsible...? A startling science fiction novel by H.
Beam Piper (author of the classic LITTLE FUZZY) and John J.
McGuire!
Included in this volume are five novelettes from the last decade of
Piper's career. The title story, "Ministry of Disturbance,"
appeared in the December 1958 issue of "Astounding," (where
Cambpell blurbed it, "Sometimes getting a job is harder than the
job after you get it -- and sometimes getting out of a job is
harder than either!"). 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 possibly have been misplaced. . . ?"); "Oomphel in the
Sky," from "Analog," November 1960 ("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. . . ?");
"Omnilingual" from the February 1957 issue of "Astounding," ("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. . .
?"); and last though hardly least, "The Keeper," from "Venture
Science Fiction," July 1957 ("Evil men had stolen his treasure, and
Raud set out with his deer rifle and his great dog Brave to catch
the thieves before they could reach the Starfolk. That the men had
negatron pistols meant little -- Raud was the Keeper. . . .")
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Null-ABC
John Joseph McGuire, H.Beam Piper
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R403
Discovery Miles 4 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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