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Most of Piper's work is now in the public domain, and available from Project Gutenberg: Piper, H. Beam. I've linked through from each title that has a PD edition.

This is very much a work in progress - if anyone has reviews, or publication dates (especially for serialization or Avon editions), or ANY other information, let me know, and I'll include them.

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Terro-Human Future History

• Federation [pub. Ace 1981] (short story collection)
  Federation has a long introduction by John F. Carr reviewing Piper's life, his Terro-Human Future History, and a short preface by Jerry Pournelle.
  
  • "Omnilingual"
  • "Naudsonce"
  • "Oomphel in the Sky"
  • "Graveyard of Dreams"
  • "When in the Course --"
• Empire [pub. Ace 1981] (short story collection)
  Like Federation, Empire has another introduction/retrospective of Beam, and it also has a short timeline of the Terro-Human Future History.
  
  • "The Edge of the Knife"
  • "A Slave is a Slave"
  • "Ministry of Disturbance"
  • "The Return" (by H.Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, illustrated by Kelly Freas)
  • "The Keeper"
• Four-Day Planet/Lone Star Planet [pub. Ace 1979] (Ace double)
• Four Day Planet [pub. Ace 1961]
• Space Viking [pub. Ace 1963]
• Junkyard Planet (aka The Cosmic Computer) [pub. Ace 1963]
• Uller Uprising [pub. Twayne 1952 in a Twayne Triplet, Ace 1983]
• "Uller Uprising" (abridged version, Space Science Fiction Feb-Mar 1953)

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• The Complete Fuzzy [pub. Ace 1998, ISBN 0441005810] (new collection, all three of Piper's Fuzzy books)
• Little Fuzzy [pub. Avon 1962]
• Fuzzy Sapiens (aka The Other Human Race) [pub. Avon 1964, Ace June 1976]
• The Fuzzy Papers (collection of Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens) [pub. Ace 1977]
• Fuzzies and Other People [pub. Ace 1984] (long-lost manuscript)
• The Adventures of Little Fuzzy, by H.Beam Piper and Benson Parker [pub. Ace 1983] (illustrated hardcover)

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Paratime

• The Complete Paratime [pub. Ace 2001, ISBN 0441008011] (new collection, contains Paratime and Lord Kalvan)
• Paratime [pub. Ace 1981] (short story collection)
  Introduction by John F. Carr
  
  • "He Walked Around the Horses"
  • "Police Operation"
  • "Last Enemy"
  • "Time Crime"
  • "Temple Trouble" - [pub. Astounding Science Fiction, April 1951]
• Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (aka Gunpowder God) [pub. Ace 1965]

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Other Science Fiction

• Crisis in 2140 (with John J. McGuire) [pub. 1957, Ace Double]
• A Planet for Texans (aka Lone Star Planet) [pub. 1958, Ace Double with Andre Norton's "Starborn"] (with John J. McGuire)
• The Worlds of H. Beam Piper [pub. Ace 1983] (short story collection)
  Introduction by John F. Carr
  
  • "Time and Time Again" (Astounding Science Fiction Apr 1947)
  • "Operation R.S.V.P." (Amazing Stories Jan 1951)
  • "Genesis" (Future Sept 1951)
  • "The Mercenaries" (Astounding Science Fiction Mar 1950)
  • "Dearest" (Weird Tales Mar 1951)
  • "Hunter Patrol" (Amazing Stories May 1959)
  • "Flight From Tomorrow" (Future Sept-Oct 1950)
  • "The Answer" (Fantastic Universe Dec 1959)
  • "Crossroads of Destiny" (Fantastic Universe July 1959)
  • "Day of the Moron" (Astounding Science Fiction Sept 1951)
• First Cycle [pub. Ace 1982] (completed posthumously by Michael Kurland)
• "Null-ABC" (with John J. McGuire)
• "Rebel Raider"

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Mystery

• "A Matter of a Millimeter" (?)
• Murder in the Gunroom (1953)

  Murder in the Gun room was a 1953 murder mystery published in hardcover as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf. It was reprinted in a facsimile edition in trade paper in 1993 by

      Old Earth Books
      P.O. Box 19951
      Baltimore, Maryland 21211-0951
      

  The reprint also contains a biography by L. Fred Ramsey, and an extensive bibliography by him.

  Randall Neff <rneff#Teknowledge.COM>

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Historical

• Only the Arquebus (uncompleted)

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Other Authors

Piper's worlds have inspired a number of sequels by other authors

• Sequels to the Fuzzy series:
  • Fuzzy Bones, by William Tuning [pub. Ace 1981]
    Fuzzy Bones is an odd novel. While it does close up many of the loose ends of the previous Fuzzy novels, and it provides a very compelling solution to the question of why the Fuzzies are so unlike the other life on Zarathustra, it also reads far too much like a romance novel (not one of Piper's strong suits), it has too much of a modern feel, and it contradicts several parts of the THFH. It's still very much worth reading, but read it after Fuzzies and Other People, and take it with a grain of titanium salt.
  • Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey, by Ardath Mayhar [pub. 1982]
    Little Fuzzy retold from the Fuzzy point of view. Very good, and while it is based on Fuzzy Bones, it doesn't manage to contradict as much (but then, how much contradiction can a Fuzzy handle, anyway?)
• Sequels to Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen:
  • Great King's War, by Roland Green & John F. Carr [pub. 1985]
    Vaguely interesting if you like military history, and completists will just HAVE to have a copy, but otherwise give it a miss.
  • "Kalvan Kingmaker", by Roland Green & John F. Carr [pub. in Alternatives, ed. Robert Adams, Baen 1989]
    A sequel to Great King's War. Even more unnecessary.
  • "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", by Roland Green & John F. Carr [pub. in There Will Be War VIII: Armageddon, ed. Jerry Pournelle, Tor 1989]
    
• Sequels to Space Viking:
  • Return of Space Viking - unfinished project by Jerry Pournelle

Last modified: 2007Dec21
Added links to Project Gutenberg public domain editions