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Science-fiction author H. Beam Piper is perhaps best known for his novels about small, semi-intelligent hominids, Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens, and the posthumously-published Fuzzies and Other People. (These three novels were collected and released in 1998 as The Complete Fuzzy.) These novels formed only a part of Piper's Terro-Human Future History (TFH), a grand, sweeping, yet convincingly realistic assortment of space opera novels and stories. Piper was also responsible for a series of stories of "sideways time travel" into parallel universes known as the Paratime Series, which includes the novel Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen. Since Piper's suicide in 1964, William Tuning, Ardath Mayhar, Michael Kurland, and Roland Green and John F. Carr have written sequels to or adaptations of Piper's work. A long-expected sequel to Piper's novel Space Viking by Jerry Pournelle has yet to be published. "He knew the grand sweep of history, but he also knew the small tales; the intrigues and petty jealousies, heroism and cowardice, honor and betrayals. This, I think, is why his stories have such a ring of truth... He was a story teller; a man who could keep you up all night with his books and tales... He was a cavalier." -Jerry Pournelle, preface to Federation, edited by John F. Carr.

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• Chaos Manor Mail October 4 - 10, 1999

  http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archivesmail/mail69.html#piper
  Jerry Pournelle comments on his relationship to Piper and his rights to write stories in Piper's universe.

• Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews #3: H Beam Piper

  http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/dani/003.htm
  Brief reviews of several Piper novels.

• Dead Fuzzies

  http://www.swil.org/FILKS/New_Filks/Dead_Fuzzies.txt
  Parody filk song, by Dave Weingart.

• Down Styphon!

  http://www.theminiaturespage.com/rules/fan/ds.html
  Fantasy Games Unlimited's (FGU) out-of-print wargame set in the Kalvan's timeline setting of Piper's Paratime novel "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen".

• Hostigos.com

  http://www.hostigos.com/
  Official site of editor John F. Carr's sequels to "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen".

• Italian Piper bibliography

  http://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/A0406.htm# 4233
  Italian translations of Piper's works, includes links to several cover scans.

• Little Fuzzy Animals

  http://www.swil.org/FILKS/New_Filks/Little_Fuzzy_H._Beam_Piper_Anim.txt
  Filk song by Harry Smothers.

• Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

  http://users.penn.com/~djfrank/Lord_Kalvan/Lord_Kalvan_page.html
  This simple page by Dennis Frank is dedicated to the Paratime novel and includes extensive notes, a map of the region where the novel is set, and photos from various locations depicted in the novel.

• Uchronia: Paratime

  http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label/pipeparati.html
  This page from the Uchronia Alternate History bibliography lists several foreign language translations of Piper's Paratime works

• Wikipedia: H. Beam Piper

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beam_Piper
  Article including links and detailed bibliography.

 

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