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"I have a unique privilege: I have the legal right, acknowledged by the copyright owners, to do stories in H. Beam Piper's worlds.
"This didn't come lightly. It was given to me by Beam Piper himself many years ago, long before I had any suspicion that I might write science fiction. Beam apparently knew my future better than I did." |
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| — Jerry Pournelle, Preface to Federation |
Beam's first published work, A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restlless Oaks," McElhattan, Pa., published in 1927 when Beam was in his mid-twenties, was a collaborative effort with Henry W. Shoemaker, the owner of the Restless Oaks collection of weapons. During his career, Beam co-authored two stories and two novels with his friend, John J. McGuire. Science-fiction author Jerry Pournelle was given permission by Beam himself "to do stories in H. Beam Piper's worlds," though to date he has never exercised this privilege publicly. Since Beam's death, Pournelle's own collaborator, John F. Carr, has compiled the definitive collections of Beam's short fiction and has published several sequels to Beam's work, mostly set in the Paratime setting. Three other authors, William Tuning, Ardath Mayhar, and most recently John Scalzi have published officially-sanctioned novels based on Beam's original material. Finally, several creative works have been produced by Beam's fans.
Henry W. Shoemaker
The 1927 "Restless Oaks" weapons catalogue, co-authored with Henry W. Shoemaker, is available from Project Gutenberg.
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John J. McGuire
Beam co-authored four works with John J. McGuire: Null-ABC in 1953; "The Return" in 1954; Lone Star Planet in 1957, and "Hunter Patrol" in 1959.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Pournelle has long been rumored to have been writing Return of Space Viking, a sequel to Beam's Space Viking, but according to an off-hand comment, he has apparently abandoned this effort.
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John F. Carr
John edited Ace's anthologies of Beam's short fiction and has written, with occasional co-authors, several sequels to Beam's Paratime and Terro-human Future History works as well as the definitive biography of Piper.
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Other collaborators
Since Piper's death several authors have written or co-written officially-sanctioned works based upon his stories and novels, including William Tuning, Ardath Mayhar, Michael Kurland, and John Scalzi.
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Fan work
Fan creative contributions to Beam's work.
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