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Development claims for Piper's other work
| "Should we do more exploring and claim some more of these places, or should we come home right away and start recruiting, and then come back with a large party . . . and explore and make further claims as we have time?" | ||
| — Conn Maxwell, The Cosmic Computer |
Modeled after the Traveller Mailing List (TML) Landgrab, Piper Development Claims are personal, non-commercial efforts to develop background elements of H. Beam Piper's non-Terro-human Future History (TFH) and non-Paratime settings. Each background developer should report on the claimed setting in great detail. The exact level of detail and degree of compliance with official canon is open to interpretation. Each background developer should survey his or her claim (including gathering the relevant canonical information) and submit a Developer's Report to the Piper Mailing List. The claims made thus far include:
| Background Development Claim | Developer | Date of Claim |
| Hartley Yarns - The Epsilon Eridani Expeditions | David Johnson | January 2001 |
Piper Development Claims have been expanded to encompass the process of comparing various editions of Piper's work for consistency and differences in order to expand and clarify the canonical material used for development. Developers in this area choose a given work and report on their comparison of the various editions. The claims made so far include:
| Canon Claim | Developer | Date of Claim |
| Null ABC/Crisis in 2140 | Eric Gimlin | September 2001 |
| "Hunter Patrol" | Tom Rogers | January 2002 |
If you wish to participate, stake your cliam on the Piper Mailing List. If none oppose you, or if you prevail in an ensuing discussion, you too may become a background developer.
Background developers may lay their claim and/or provide links to their Developer's Report by posting an announcement to the Piper Mailing List. Developers may have their Developer's Report hosted at Zarthani.net by sending a request to the Zarthani.net Development Claims Bureau.
Background developers may lay their claim and/or provide links to their Developer's Report by posting an announcement to the Piper Mailing List. Developers may have their Developer's Report hosted at Zarthani.net by sending a request to the Zarthani.net Development Claims Bureau.
Further development of Piper's other work
| "I do a lot of stories for the pulps. Space-Trails, and Other Worlds, and Wonder-Stories; mags like that. Most of it's standardized formula-stuff; what's known to the trade as space-operas. My best stuff goes to Astonishing. . . . What I do for Astonishing is really hard work, and I enjoy it." | ||
| — Pierre Jarrett (H. Beam Piper), Murder in the Gunroom |
In addition to the above efforts to develop the canon of Piper's other work a variety of other commercial products and informal efforts exist which are based upon or expand on Piper's other work.
| — | Fred Pohl's letter describing the submission of an unpublished Piper novella titled "Hour of Indecision" to Sam Moskowitz at (what I am guessing was) Science Fiction Plus magazine. |
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The Hashemite Caliphate, a non-canonical analogue for the Islamic Kaliphate of the Hartley yarns created by Pedromoderno for the Ill Bethisad alternate history setting. |
