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| "Now, Piper's Terro-Human Future History stories have been published in Federation and Empire, while the Paratime Police yarns can be found in Paratime! The Worlds of H. Beam Piper includes all the remaining stories that did not fit into either series or somehow slipped between the cracks." | ||
| — John F. Carr, Introduction to The Worlds of H. Beam Piper |
From 1981 to 1983 all of H. Beam Piper's short fiction was republished by Ace Books in four anthologies edited by John F. Carr. These anthologies supplemented Ace Books' reissue of several of Piper's science fiction novels including Uller Uprising
, Lone Star Planet
(co-authored with John J. McGuire), Four-Day Planet
(as a "double novel" with Lone Star Planet), Little Fuzzy
, Space Viking
, Junkyard Planet
(as The Cosmic Computer), Fuzzy Sapiens (sequel to Little Fuzzy), and the Paratime novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. In the same period Ace Books also released two commissioned sequels to Piper's two Fuzzy novels: William Tuning's Fuzzy Bones and Ardath Mayhar's Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey. These authorized sequels were followed by Ace Books' publication of Piper's own previously unpublished third Fuzzy novel, Fuzzies and Other People, in 1984.
Since 1984 Piper works originally published before 1964 have passed into the public domain and are now available via many on-line sources including Project Gutenberg and Many Books and from a variety of publishers such as Wildside Press, Alan Rodger's Aegypan Press, and BiblioBazaar. This includes many of the stories which were first collected by Carr in the Terrohuman Future History anthologies Federation and Empire, in the Paratime! anthology, and in The Worlds of H. Beam Piper.
, Lone Star Planet (co-authored with John J. McGuire), Four-Day Planet (as a "double novel" with Lone Star Planet), Little Fuzzy, Space Viking, Junkyard Planet (as The Cosmic Computer), Fuzzy Sapiens (sequel to Little Fuzzy), and the Paratime novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. In the same period Ace Books also released two commissioned sequels to Piper's two Fuzzy novels: William Tuning's Fuzzy Bones and Ardath Mayhar's Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey. These authorized sequels were followed by Ace Books' publication of Piper's own previously unpublished third Fuzzy novel, Fuzzies and Other People, in 1984.
Since 1984 Piper works originally published before 1964 have passed into the public domain and are now available via many on-line sources including Project Gutenberg and Many Books and from a variety of publishers such as Wildside Press, Alan Rodger's Aegypan Press, and BiblioBazaar. This includes many of the stories which were first collected by Carr in the Terrohuman Future History anthologies Federation and Empire, in the Paratime! anthology, and in The Worlds of H. Beam Piper.
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Federation
 , H. Beam Piper (John F. Carr, ed.), New York, Ace Books, 1981, with cover illustration by Michael Whelan
Federation collects five stories from the Federation-era of Piper's Terrohuman Future History, including "Graveyard of Dreams" which was later expanded into the novel Junkyard Planet and the previously unpublished "When in the Course—" which introduces story elements which were later incorporated into the Paratime novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.
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Empire
, H. Beam Piper (John F. Carr, ed.), New York, Ace Books, 1981, with cover illustration by Michael Whelan
Empire collects four stories from Piper's Terrohuman Future History, plus the post-apocalyptic story "The Return," co-written with John J. McGuire, which Carr included to "give us a good look at what life might have been like on Terra after the Interstellar Wars." The anthology also includes Carr's original chronology of Piper's Terrohuman Future History.
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Paratime!
, H. Beam Piper (John F. Carr, ed.), New York, Ace Books, 1981, with cover illustration by Michael Whelan for "Police Operation"
Paratime! collects five of Piper's Paratime stories. All feature the parallel-world-policing Paratime Police except "He Walked Around the Horses" which was inspired by the actual disappearance of a British diplomat traveling in Prussia in 1809. Nevertheless, the events of "He Walked Around the Horses" are briefly mentioned in the Paratime yarn "Police Operation."
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The Worlds of H. Beam Piper
 , John F. Carr, ed., New York, Ace Books, 1983, with uncredited cover illustration
Worlds collects ten stories including the shared-universe "Hartley" stories "Time and Time Again" (Piper's first published story), "The Mercenaries," and "Day of the Moron." Two other stories, "Genesis" and "Crossroads of Destiny," are likely part of the Paratime series, though the Paratime Police do not appear in either story.
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