H. Beam Piper | Other Works Concordance

Other Works Concordance

"'There ain't no pictures in it; nothing but print. It's a Literate book,' Olaf said in disgust, as though at something obscene."
— H. Beam Piper, Null-ABC

A work-in-progress compendium of background and setting information from Piper's other stories and novels.

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A	Abd-el-Rahman, Ahmed: Arab jeep-driver who had joined [the MacLeod Research Team] in Basra; learned his English from American movies; followed General Nayland's chauffeur into Oppenheimer Village. ^[Me] Back to top
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H	Hartley, Blake: began making plans with his teenaged son, Allan Hartley, to avert the expected future Third World War. ^[TTA] Hartley, Allan: "a man of forty-three; an army officer, a chemist, once a best-selling novelist" killed in the Third World War in 1975. "He had been married, and divorced ten years" before. "Reawakened" in his fourteen-year-old body in August 1945. Began making plans with his father, Blake Hartley, to avert the expected future Third World War. ^[TTA] Back to top
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O	Olva: electromagnetician, one of the survivors of the destruction of the Doorshan (Martian) colony ship; ultimately killed by the Hairy People on Tareesh (Terra).^[GE] Back to top

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S	Solar League: interstellar polity, headquartered at the domed city of Artemis (presumably on Earth's moon); led by a President; successor to the United Nations.^[LSP] Back to top
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V	Varnis: machinist's helper, "pert little" female member of crew of the Martian ship sent to Terra; after the loss of her child to an attack by the Hairy People she suffered from emotional and mental breakdown.^[GE] Back to top

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Characters sources (in order of publication):

TTA: "Time and Time Again," Astounding, April 1947.
Me: "The Mercenaries," Astounding, March 1950.
GE: "Genesis," Future, September 1951.
LSP: Lone Star Planet, Fantastic Universe, March 1957.

Ap: Apocrypha — non-canonical material. See "Newton's Rule."

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