H. Beam Piper | Other Works

H. Beam Piper's Other Works

"Why Walt Disney bought the movie rights to ['Rebel Raider'], I've never figured out. Will Colonel Mosby be played by Mickey Mouse, and General Phil Sheridan by Donald Duck? It's baffling. However, I was glad to get the check."^[*]
— H. Beam Piper, The Pennsy interview, 1953

Fiction, Non-fiction and More

Besides his Terro-human Future History and Paratime yarns, Piper also published other novels, stories and non-fiction pieces that were not part of either of these settings. Among these other works were his mystery novel Murder in the Gunroom (1953) and seven short stories including the linked "Hartley" yarns "Time and Time Again" (1947), "The Mercenaries" (1950) and "Day of the Moron (1951). Piper also collaborated on four science-fiction yarns with his friend John J. McGuire: Null‑ABC (1953), "The Return" (1954), Lone Star Planet (1957) and "Hunter Patrol" (1959). Most of the stories have been collected in The Worlds of H. Beam Piper, edited by John F. Carr ("The Return" appears in Empire, also edited by Carr).

Bibliography

Image - Astounding, September 1951, cover illustration

Cover illustration by Hubert Rogers for "Day of the Moron"
(Image served by the Luminist Archives)

A comprehensive list, by date of publication (including republishings and reprints), of Beam's other stories and novels — beyond his Terro-human Future History and Paratime yarns — and other, non-fiction work, from his first published yarn "Time and Time Again," which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1947, through First Cycle, an unfinished Piper manuscript completed posthumously by Michael Kurland and published by Ace in 1982.

Gallery

Image - Murder in the Gunroom, Knopf 1953 dust jacket illustration

Dust jacket illustration by Georgianna Schiffmacher for Murder in the Gunroom

A gallery of cover and interior illustrations for Beam's other stories and novels, beginning with Vincent Napoli's interior illustrations for "Time and Time Again," published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1947, and Hubert Rogers's cover illustration for "Day of the Moron," published in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1951.

Concordance

Image - Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, March 1957, cover illustration

Cover illustration by Virgil Finlay for Lone Star Planet
(Image served by the Luminist Archives)

A compendium of background and setting information from Beam's other stories and novels, including details about characters, like Allan Hartley, from "Time and Time Again," and organizations, like the Solar League, from Lone Star Planet.

Development

Image - Worlds of H. Beam Piper cover illustration

Cover illustration for The Worlds of H. Beam Piper
(Image served by the Ace Image Library)

Starship Eridanus is a future — and alternate — historical setting based on Piper's "Hartley" yarns which follows the Epsilon Eridani Expeditions in the era of the first, sub-light settlement of near-Earth interstellar space.

[*] As it turned out, Mosby was played by Jack Ging in Disney's 1967 adaptation.

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