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1008 David Johnson 12-30-2012 16:57 UT	~ Jackson Russell wrote: > To what is this upsurge > credited? In the 80s almost everything Piper wrote was > rereleased, some under different titles. Also, Tuning and > Mayhar put out some new sequels to the Fuzzy books, easily > Piper's most popular works. This is clearly the cause of the peak in 1980. > More recently, Project Gutenberg > has made the majority of Piper's work available for free for > some time now. I think this is the source of the bulk of the rise after 2005. I don't think Google is using Gutenberg versions (thanks again, Greg Weeks!) in its analysis but beginning with the Wildside and Aegypan reprints in 2006 there have been several print-on-demand reprintings of Beam's work using the public domain source material at Gutenberg. Resellers at places like eBay and ABEbooks.com are overwhelmed with these editions. Remember Ashmodai! Remember Belphegor! David -- "Do you know which books to study, and which ones not to bother with? Or which ones to read first, so that what you read in the others will be comprehensible to you? That's what they'll give you [at university]. The tools, which you don't have now, for educating yourself." - Bish Ware (H. Beam Piper), ~Four-Day Planet~ ~
1007 David Johnson 12-30-2012 16:49 UT	~ Jonathan Crocker wrote: > Is the graph a count of books published? If I understand correctly, it's not specifically books published by Piper but rather books in which "H. Beam Piper" (the search term I used) is mentioned. Presumably, that includes books in which Piper's name is listed as the author. . . . Dennis' refinement to just books published in American English is a great improvement over my first effort. Thanks, Dennis! David -- "Our rulers are the barbarians among us. There isn't one of them . . . who is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian." - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper), _Space_Viking_ ~
1006 Dennis Frank 12-30-2012 05:45 UT	Look at American English and you'll see that "Piper's Peak" hasn't been reached yet! http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?conte...r&year_start=1940&y ear_end=2008&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share= Dennis On 12/30/12 12:07 AM, "QuickTopic daily digest" <qtopic-42-tnfVKeAH3s4T@quicktopic.com> wrote: < replied-to message removed by QT >
1005 Jackson Russell 12-30-2012 05:09 UT	I think another question might be: To what is this upsurge credited? In the 80s almost everything Piper wrote was rereleased, some under different titles. Also, Tuning and Mayhar put out some new sequels to the Fuzzy books, easily Piper's most popular works. More recently, Project Gutenberg has made the majority of Piper's work available for free for some time now. It has also been findable in used book stores. In the late '90's compilations of the Fuzzy trilogy and Paratime were issued by Ace, which is where the Graph shows a new climb in popularity. More recently, we have had John F. Carr cranking out Lord Kalvan sequels, plus additions to Space Viking with Mike Robertson and more Fuzzy books by Wolfgang Diehr (would a third Fuzzy book by Diehr be too much?) I think Time Crime is in there, too, as an expanded story with some added original material. Finally, we have John Scalzi's dreadful (in my opinion) reinterpretation of Little Fuzzy. All of this should bring Piper back into the public consciousness. Too bad the graph doesn't give a clear accounting after 2000. Jack
1004 Jonathan Crocker 12-30-2012 04:46 UT	That's interesting. Is the graph a count of books published? It can't be internet searches if it starts in the 1940s. And it's trending upwards again. But does it count ebook usage now too?
1003 David "PiperFan" Johnson 12-29-2012 22:07 UT	~ Piper's Peak in 1980? This Google Ngram is pretty cool: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?conte...per&year_start=1940 Down Styphon! David -- "You know any kind of observation that doesn't contaminate the thing observed, professor?" - Tortha Karf (H. Beam Piper), ~Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen~ ~
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1001 Jonathan Crocker 12-25-2012 00:18 UT	Thanks for the reminder - I was waiting to see which way that Mayan thing broke first...
1000 David "PiperFan" Johnson 12-24-2012 23:56 UT	~ Happy Christmas, Piper Fans! Thank you again to those of you who have contributed to keep Zarthani.net's H. Beam Piper List on the Web and free of advertising this past year. I have just paid the annual subscription fee (US$49) for the next year. If you've not yet had a chance to contribute please consider making a small donation using the PayPal Donate link on the discussion forum page. (Just follow the link to the discussion forum if you're reading these messages by e-mail.) And no peeking at those New Year's presents! David -- "I always was a present-peeker, New Year's and my birthdays." - Elaine Karvall, ~Space Viking~ ~
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997 David "PiperFan" Johnson 11-20-2012 23:26 UT	~ Junkyard of Empire I've recently completed another "reboot," this time of Piper's "Graveyard of Dreams" (which became the first three chapters of ~The Cosmic Computer~). It's posted at Zarthani.net: http://www.zarthani.net/h_beam_piper_development.htm I've tried to do a bit of the sort of thing John Cowan has done with "Omnilingual" and that John Scalzi did less well (imho) with ~Little Fuzzy~. I'm eager to hear what others think. Enjoy, David -- "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 ~

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