Jon Crocker  02-24-2018
15:55 UT
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That's a lot of information, John, thanks for that.
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-24-2018
01:59 UT
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John "Calidore" Anderson wrote:
> All of these elements—merchant-related vessel, captured
> by enemies, conversion to military use, litigation,
> recapture by friendly forces, and conversion to trade
> ship— are found in a Civil War vessel; the USRC Harriet Lane.
Those
are some fascinating parallels! I'm not sure I'm convinced--why Beam
would have switched "Lane" to "Barne" remains a sticky unknown--but your
research and reasoning here is, as usual, remarkable.
> One might object that in a true parallel, the Harriet Barne
> should be a vessel from the System States War, not forty
> years later. But the ship could actually be a leftover of the
> War, which once sat on Mothball Row behind the West End
> docks at Storisende along with all the other mothballed
> ships, before being brought back into service by
> Transcontinent and Overseas. (CC, pp. 3, 62, 85)
I
agree it's more likely the ~Harriet Barne~ was a surplus airship from
the War era than a new ship built since the War, but that would probably
have been the case whatever she had been named. I'm not sure we can
rely on this point to tell us much one way or another.
> Moreover, the Harriet Barne is taken from the pirates by
> the contragravity gunboats of Col. Klem Zareff, who trained
> his men in “the manual of drill, arms and salute [of the]
> System States Alliance”, and named the gunboats “for
> capital ships of the old System States Navy.” (ibid., pp.
> 67, 79) It can therefore be considered a ‘new Alliance’
> (or ‘Confederate’) flotilla.
Here,
I'm less convinced. Many of "Fawzi's Gang" are explicitly antagonistic
toward the planetary government--and none of them are fans of the
Alliance, despite Zareff's naming of the gunboats after Alliance capital
ships. If anything, the Fawzi / Maxwell / Zareff paramilitary forces
are more like privateers themselves than they are like a government
entity. The historical model is more akin to something like the Dutch
East India Company than to the Confederacy (much less a "new Alliance").
> Assuming this theory is correct, Piper modeled the Harriet
> Barne on the Harriet Lane, and the converted Harriet Barne
> itself is related to the other ships ‘converted’ to merchant
> or military use in The Cosmic Computer; including the ‘new
> Alliance’ ones of Col. Zareff.
Zareff's gunboats seem to have been surplus military airships, not converted merchant ships.
> Why Beam changed Lane to Barne I don’t know. David may
> be right that it comes from Harriet Barnes Pratt.
I
think this is the key question--where does "(Harriet) Barne" come
from?--but even I think it's a bit of a reach to draw the connection to
Mrs. Pratt. I suspect the idea of any connection at all here may have
more to do with Google's search algorithm than it does with Beam's
inspirations for airship names. Mrs. Pratt would have been know as
"Harriet Pratt" to anyone but her closest acquaintances. And then
there's that "missing 's'" for those who knew her as "Harriet Barnes
Pratt." If there were any better suggestions I wouldn't have mentioned
this possibility.
> Within Beam’s imagined universe, the name Harriet Barne
> could therefore be a creative combination of the Harriet
> Lane and Harriet Barnes Pratt, referring to a wealthy
> Poictesmean or Terran philanthropist who is related to
> a major political figure on Terra.
Certainly
possible, but why would Beam bother to conflate the two? He doesn't
seem to do that sort of thing in other circumstances. Why not just
stick with the ~Harriet Lane~?
> ;(1) The first personal reason being, of course, that
>‘Harriet’ was the name of Piper’s mother. The second
> reason is that Harriet Barnes Pratt has the same initials as
> Henry Beam Piper.
Those
matching initials are a nice coincidence but if that's really what was
going on, why'd he drop the "s"? And if he was naming the ship after
his mother, why not stick with her maiden name and name the airship the
~Harriet Maurer~? Again, we'd be hard pressed to find other examples of
Beam conflating his inspirations like this.
> And third, ‘Pratt’ could be connected to Inga and Fletcher
> Pratt.
Well,
Pratt's husband was an heir to the Standard Oil fortune, so it seems
doubtful there was any actual familial relationship between Mrs. Pratt
and Piper's friends.
Again, that's some nice research you've done
into the ~Harriet Lane~ but I'm still wondering if there isn't a
character named "Harriet Barne" in some obscure bit of Cabell's work.
That's where ~Countess Dorothy~ comes from and given the lack of a good
fit for "Harriet Barne" in any of these other examples we've discussed
I'm left wondering if that's not also the actual source.
YMMV, of course.
David
--
"Ideas
for science fiction stories like ideas for anything else, are where you
find them, usually in the most unlikely places. The only reliable
source is a mind which asks itself a question like, 'What would happen
if--?' or, 'Now what would this develop into, in a few centuries?' Or,
'How would so-and-so happen?' Anything at all, can trigger such a
question, in your field if not in mine." - H. Beam Piper, "Double: Bill
Symposium" interview
~
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Calidore 02-20-2018
16:36 UT
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The Harriet Barne
Aside from David Johnson’s suggestion, I don’t
know what other theories have been put forward about the origin of the
airship/spaceship Harriet Barne. But this is what I’ve come up with; an
expansion on an idea I got back in 2009, while working on a paper about
Lone Star Planet.
As we all know, The Cosmic Computer opens
forty years after the System States War ends. The novel is largely
concerned with the events of the System States era, particularly with
regards to Merlin, built during the SSW and the primary cause of the
Alliance’s defeat. The System States War is modeled on the American
Civil War, so Piper could have had a Civil War model in mind for the
Harriet Barne. He was an expert on the subject, having first learned
about it at an early age from his mother, Harriet, who “was able to
relate so much knowledge of the war…she having been born shortly before
its ending.” (Carr, Piper Biography, p. 9)
The Harriet Barne
is a Poictesmean merchant and passenger vessel which is captured by
pirates, who then begin converting her into a spaceship for an
essentially military purpose. The pirate leader, Blackie Perales, wants
to take the Harriet Barne to Koshchei and pick up some Space Navy
superweapons, left there by the Federation at the end of the War. If he
gets his hands on them, he could make himself king of all the criminal
gangs on Poictesme; and thereafter, presumably, of the planet itself.
But the ship is recaptured in a battle, and becomes a prize of the
victors. Nevertheless, some legal litigation ensues with the original
owners. This is finally resolved by the creation of a new company,
Alpha Interplanetary, which will use the Harriet Barne as a merchant
vessel to planets in the Alpha system, notably Koshchei. (Piper, Cosmic
Computer, pp. 3, 102, 103, 104-113, 115, 116-118, 121-122)
All
of these elements—merchant-related vessel, captured by enemies,
conversion to military use, litigation, recapture by friendly forces,
and conversion to trade ship—are found in a Civil War vessel; the USRC
Harriet Lane.
“Harriet Lane was a revenue cutter of the United
States Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil
War, a ship of the United States Navy and later Confederate States
Navy. The craft was named after the niece of senator and later United
States President, James Buchanan; during his presidency, she acted as
First Lady. The cutter was christened and entered the water for the
Revenue Service in 1859 out of New York City, and saw action during the
Civil War at Fort Sumter, New Orleans, Galveston, Texas, and Virginia
Point and was captured by the Confederates in 1863, whereupon she was
converted to a trade ship. She was recaptured by Union forces at the
end of war, declared unfit for service, sold, and rechristened the
Elliot Ritchie out of Philadelphia, only to be abandoned at sea in
1881.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRC_Harriet_Lane_(1857))
The
Harriet Barne is arguably the most important ship in The Cosmic
Computer. She’s “the biggest contragravity ship on the planet”, and her
interplanetary missions lead to the reactivation of the mines and
factories on Koshchei, thereby bringing products to Poictesme that are
currently in short supply; the discovery of all the interplanetary ships
abandoned after the War, which enables more companies to begin trade in
the Alpha System and beyond; in turn resulting in the Maxwell Plan
“getting things really started.” (CC, pp. 3, 126, 161, 184, 195)
And
although the USRC Harriet Lane does not possess the fame of Civil
War-era ships like the Monitor and Merrimack, she played an important
supporting role in the war, and even distinguished herself in the
antebellum period.
In 1858, she was temporarily transferred to
the Navy, taking part in a successful show of force against the dictator
of Paraguay. “In his report, Flag Officer William B. Shubrick singled
out Harriet Lane for special commendation on the invaluable service she
rendered in extricating his other ships that repeatedly ran aground in
the treacherous waters of the Paraná River.” And “In September 1860 she
embarked Edward Albert, the Prince of Wales, the first member of the
British Royal Family to visit the United States, for passage to Mount
Vernon, where he planted a tree and placed a wreath on the tomb of
George Washington.” (wikipedia)
Upon the outbreak of the American
Civil War, the Harriet Lane was again transferred to the Navy, “and
sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to supply the Fort Sumter
garrison…On the evening of the 11th, the Harriet Lane fired on the
civilian steamship Nashville when that merchantman appeared with no
colors flying. Nashville avoided further attack by promptly hoisting the
United States ensign. When Major Robert Anderson surrendered Fort
Sumter 13 April, USRC Harriet Lane withdrew with her sister ships.
According to Coast Guard historian Captain Commandant Horatio Davis
Smith, USRCS, Ret; Lieutenant W. D. Thompson fired the first naval shot
of the Civil War with the thirty-two pounder he commanded on the deck of
the Harriet Lane at the Nashville.” (ibid.)
After firing the
first naval shot of the Civil War, the Harriet Lane engaged in several
other battles along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and was briefly used
as Commodore Farragut’s flagship in the West Gulf Squadron. Then,
“During the Battle of Galveston, Harriet Lane sank the Rebel tugboat
Neptune, leaving one-half of the two-vessel Confederate fleet lying on
the bottom of the harbor.” Unfortunately she was damaged, and when the
other Union ships withdrew, the Harriet Lane was captured by Confederate
forces. (ibid.)
“After a week of repairs, Harriet Lane was
placed under the command of Captain Thomas C. Saunders and dispatched to
fight the Union vessels at sea, despite lengthy legal discussions
regarding the capture of the prize which had not yet drawn to a close.”
(ibid.)
However, her usefulness was now in some doubt. “The ship
was…considered by the [Confederate] navy to be too slow and inefficient
to become a blockade runner…naval secretary Stephen Mallory recommended
that the navy relinquish control…In the 30th of April 1864 she was
dispatched past the Union blockade to Cuba, loaded with a cargo of
cotton. At Havana she was entered into the British naval registry and
named Lavinia. At the end of the war she was interned at Havana and was
recovered by the U.S. government.” (ibid.)
By that time, the
“Harriet Lane was declared unfit for naval service. She was refitted to
an unarmed three-masted fore-and-aft schooner and renamed Elliot
Ritchie, and operated out of Philadelphia, transporting coal and
merchandise.” (ibid.)
One might object that in a true parallel,
the Harriet Barne should be a vessel from the System States War, not
forty years later. But the ship could actually be a leftover of the
War, which once sat on Mothball Row behind the West End docks at
Storisende along with all the other mothballed ships, before being
brought back into service by Transcontinent and Overseas. (CC, pp. 3,
62, 85) Moreover, the Harriet Barne is taken from the pirates by the
contragravity gunboats of Col. Klem Zareff, who trained his men in “the
manual of drill, arms and salute [of the] System States Alliance”, and
named the gunboats “for capital ships of the old System States Navy.”
(ibid., pp. 67, 79) It can therefore be considered a ‘new Alliance’ (or
‘Confederate’) flotilla. Seen in this light, the Harriet Barne’s later
merchant-related trips to Koshchei for the ‘Alliance’ of Col. Zareff
and the Fawzi’s Office Gang would parallel the Harriet Lane’s merchant
voyage to Cuba for the Confederacy.
Cuba is an island in the ocean; Koshchei is a planet in space.
It
is also interesting that, during the initial conversion process of the
Harriet Barne, “the whole underside was sheathed in shimmering
collapsium.” (ibid., p. 118) Beam appears to deliberately make it
sound like the hull of an ocean-going vessel, beneath the
superstructure. Of course, the Harriet Barne is later completely
sheathed in collapsium, before making its first voyage to Koshchei. And
the Harriet Lane “was a copper-plated steamer”; “the entire ship was
sheathed and fastened with copper.” (wikipedia)
Copper, collapsium.
Another
bit of evidence in support of the Harriet Lane model is its connection
to Pennsylvania, Piper’s home state. For both Harriet Lane and her
uncle, James Buchanan, were born in Franklin County, along the southern
border. Buchanan served in the Pennsylvania state congress, and was
then a US Senator representing his home state, before becoming
president. Moreover, his term of office in the White House was from
1857-1861; just before the Civil War. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan)
Assuming
this theory is correct, Piper modeled the Harriet Barne on the Harriet
Lane, and the converted Harriet Barne itself is related to the other
ships ‘converted’ to merchant or military use in The Cosmic Computer;
including the ‘new Alliance’ ones of Col. Zareff. Since the USRC
Harriet Lane was named for a niece of a US senator who later became
president, it is possible that the Harriet Barne was named for a female
relative of a Member of the Federation Parliament, who later became
President of the Terran Federation. Indeed, the fact that Harriet Lane
acted as First Lady for the bachelor President Buchanan creates the
possibility that the character Harriet Barne was, or became, a First
Lady of the Terran Federation.
Why Beam changed Lane to Barne I
don’t know. David may be right that it comes from Harriet Barnes Pratt.
This makes sense, for three reasons of personal interest to Piper. (1)
But it also makes sense because Harriet Barnes Pratt worked in the
White House, just like Harriet Lane. “Mrs. Pratt served on White House
advisory committees on furnishings during the presidential terms of
Calvin Coolidge through to Harry S. Truman. In 1925 she was appointed as
chair of the White House's first committee, by President Coolidge.
Through Pratt's efforts, Eleanor Roosevelt agreed to the establishment
of the Subcommittee upon Furniture and Furnishings and Gifts for State
Rooms of the White House to be placed under the United States Commission
of Fine Arts. Mrs. Pratt served as the subcommittee's chair and as a
member until 1947.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Barnes_Pratt)
Within
Beam’s imagined universe, the name Harriet Barne could therefore be a
creative combination of the Harriet Lane and Harriet Barnes Pratt,
referring to a wealthy Poictesmean or Terran philanthropist who is
related to a major political figure on Terra. If she is from Poictesme,
she probably makes her fortune during the war, and leaves for Terra
after its end. Because when “The Federation armies departed [the
Trisystem]…The people who had grown richest out of the War had followed,
taking their riches with them.” (CC, p. 5)
Assuming
Harriet Barne was a wealthy patron who embarked for Terra after the
System States War, the airship Harriet Barne would then be another
‘abandoned relic’; left behind by the woman she was named for.
Now
let’s look at the vessel’s future. As we’ve seen, the USRC Harriet
Lane (as the Elliot Ritchie) was ultimately abandoned at sea, which
should mean that the Harriet Barne is ‘abandoned’ yet again; she ceases
operation as a vessel of Alpha-Interplanetary. This is supported by the
fact that, after her second trip to Koshchei, all the lost
interplanetary spaceships are found; these being in the standard
spherical shape. (ibid., pp. 124, 182) And Conn Maxwell himself
suggests that the use of unorthodox interplanetary vessels like the
Harriet Barne won’t last long. “Well, till we can get a shipyard going
on Koshchei and build some real [spherical] spaceships, there are going
to be some rare-looking objects traveling around the Alpha System.”
(ibid., p. 129) Sometime afterward—presumably not long past the end of
The Cosmic Computer, since the standard interplanetary vessels have been
found—all the ‘rare-looking’ spaceships will be withdrawn from service.
A strict parallel would have the Harriet Barne abandoned
in space, paralleling how the Harriet Lane (Elliott Ritchie) was
abandoned at sea. But given Piper’s penchant for happy endings—at
least, in the short term—in later years the Harriet Barne could become
an orbiting museum, where citizens of the ‘Poictesmean Federation’ can
learn about how the Trisystem became prosperous again, and experience
the vessel’s two configurations; for air and space-travel. If so, this
situation could potentially last for many decades, even past the end of
the Terran Federation, until whatever Interstellar War occurs which
causes the ruin of the Maxwell/Merlin Plan, and, presumably, the
destruction of Poictesme.
What then would be the final fate of
the Harriet Barne? She could be destroyed during this postulated war in
which Poictesme is devastated. Or, she could indeed become
‘abandoned’; an empty relic of the short-lived Poictesmean Federation,
floating adrift in orbital or interplanetary space.
John
(1)
The first personal reason being, of course, that ‘Harriet’ was the
name of Piper’s mother. The second reason is that Harriet Barnes Pratt
has the same initials as Henry Beam Piper. And third, ‘Pratt’ could be
connected to Inga and Fletcher Pratt. Piper was good friends with
Fletcher, and Inga appears to have played matchmaker; not only urging
Beam to marry the woman who became the love of his life, Betty Hirst,
but acting as a witness at their wedding. (Carr, Piper Biography, pp.
94, 96, 101, 120)
By the time Piper wrote The Cosmic
Computer in the early 1960s, however, Fletcher Pratt had died, Beam’s
marriage to Betty had crumbled, and he seems to have lost touch with
Inga. Thus, like the airship Countess Dorothy, which appears to have a
subtle connection to Beam’s lost loves Lillian and Betty, the
air/spaceship Harriet Barne might be another subtle tribute to lost
loved ones; in this case, his mother and the Pratts.
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-18-2018
23:56 UT
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Jon Crocker wrote:
> I'm also re-thinking some of the Nemesis/Victrix vs
> Enterprise/Yo-Yo battle scenes from Space Viking in
> light of that chart. "She hairpinned on us" becomes
> a lot more impressive if you think of a small mountain
> making a hairpin turn.
I've
been re-reading Anderson's Polesotechnic League stories lately and
while there are differences in the technology--Polesotechnic hyperships
can detect other ships in hyperspace at a certain range--it's
interesting that most of the battles occur at distances where the
battling ships can't actually see each other because the distances and
speeds at which they are interacting are greater than those allowing for
visual detection.
There are plenty of instances in ~Space
Viking~ where crews aboard the battling starships seem to be able to see
the other starships in their respective screens. One
wonders--especially given the idea of "a small mountain making a hairpin
turn"--if these aren't actually real-time computer-generated animations
made to help the humans visualize what's happening rather than actual
imagery being captured and displayed by some sort of imaging device.
"Royal Navy; smash the traitors first!"
David
--
"We
talk glibly about ten to the hundredth power, but emotionally we still
count, 'One, Two, Three, Many.'" - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper), ~Space
Viking~
~
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Jon Crocker 02-16-2018
00:06 UT
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I'm also re-thinking some of the Nemesis/Victrix vs Enterprise/Yo-Yo
battle scenes from Space Viking in light of that chart. "She hairpinned
on us" becomes a lot more impressive if you think of a small mountain
making a hairpin turn.
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Jon Crocker 02-15-2018
05:55 UT
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Thanks for posting the size comparison charts - when I'm reading and it
mentions the ships, I think I know what it means, but I don't really
stop and figure it out.
The illustration with only part of the
Piper ship really drives that point home. If they ever went over the
dayside of a planet, you wouldn't need radar to track them! Well, not
really. But I'd hate to live near one of Piper's spaceports, the
shadows of the landed ships would kill your lawn.
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-14-2018
03:47 UT
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Jon Crocker wrote:
> If that's the case, the philanthropist seems a likely source.
That's my guess, especially given she was a patron of this little contraption:
https://www.nybg.org/blogs/plant-talk/2011...y-the-floral-flyer/
which it's not difficult to imagine Beam encountering during one of his visits to New York.
'Ware the air pirates!
David
--
"Ideas
for science fiction stories like ideas for anything else, are where you
find them, usually in the most unlikely places. The only reliable
source is a mind which asks itself a question like, 'What would happen
if--?' or, 'Now what would this develop into, in a few centuries?' Or,
'How would so-and-so happen?' Anything at all, can trigger such a
question, in your field if not in mine." - H. Beam Piper, "Double: Bill
Symposium" interview
~
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-13-2018
03:20 UT
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Post Script: Piper's Space Viking Starships in Traveller
Here's an interesting blog post from a while back over at The Zhodani Base:
http://zho.berka.com/2013/02/19/spherical-space-ships/
It's
a discussion of spherical starships in Traveller (and sci-fi in
general) but it begins with Piper's ships from ~Space Viking~, and
includes John Schoenherr's wonderful cover illustration from the
original ~Analog~ serialization. What's interresting is that Piper's
ships are among the earliest of all of the sci-fi examples mentioned.
There's also a link to an interesting size-comparison chart here:
http://s31.photobucket.com/user/waynepeter...s_plus_TOS.jpg.html
While
this shows some interesting comparisons for Traveller's
Broadsword-class mercenary cruiser, a more interesting comparison chart
is here:
http://www.enderra.com/2011/10/14/starsship-sizes/
From this chart we can see that 2000-foot Space Viking ships dwarf even Traveller's Tigress-class dreadnoughts.
There's
also a link to an interesting piece which explains that a sphere-shaped
ship makes the most effective use of internal volume and external
surface area:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpheroidDropship
There's Beam, ahead of his time.
David
--
"We
talk glibly about ten to the hundredth power, but emotionally we still
count, 'One, Two, Three, Many.'" - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper), ~Space
Viking~
~
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Jon Crocker 02-13-2018
02:56 UT
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Maybe he saw that name, or a similar one, in a newspaper article and liked the sound of it?
If that's the case, the philanthropist seems a likely source.
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-12-2018
00:17 UT
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Namesake of the ~Harriet Barne~?
One of the little enduring
mysteries of the Terro-human Future History is the namesake of the
contragravity airship ~Harriet Barne~, converted by Conn Maxwell and his
compatriots in ~Junkyard Planet~ into a makeshift interplanetary
spaceship.
Unlike the airship ~Countess Dorothy~, the ~Harriet
Barne~ doesn't seem to be named after some character from the works of
James Branch Cabell, inspiration for Poictesme's founder Genji Gartner.
I've suggested previously that perhaps the airship-cum-spaceship was
named for philanthropist Harriet Barnes Pratt, a contemporary of Piper's
(though there's no indication that he knew her personally). Still,
this is simply a guess and one complicated by the fact that she had an
"s" at the end of her maiden name that isn't there in the name of the
airship.
Recently, I stumbled across this obituary of Piper's father, Herbert Piper, posted to the old PIPER-L mailing list back in 2001:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080310054125...-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=3034
It
reminded me that Piper's mother's name was Harriet but it also notes
that her maiden name was Maurer, which suggests it's unlikely that Piper
named the airship for his mother. I suppose it's possible that
"Harriet Barne" could have been _her_ mother, Piper's maternal
grandmother, but at this point that's simply another guess.
And so, the mystery of the ~Harriet Barne~ continues. . . .
"Is there no Great Computer?"
David
--
"A
lot of technicians are girls, and when work gets slack, they're always
the first ones to get shoved out of jobs." - Sylvie Jacquemont (H. Beam
Piper), ~Junkyard Planet~
~
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-03-2018
03:59 UT
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~ John Carr wrote: > This years Muster is going to be held on Saturday, > May 19, 2018. We will be meeting at the Waffle Shop > on North Atherton in State College at 10:00 a.m. > > You're all invited! We hope to see lots of new faces > this year. I've
thoroughly enjoyed the Irregulars Musters I've attended. I
wholeheartedly recommend the experience. From the Piper fan camaraderie
around the breakfast table at the Waffle Shop: http://www.zarthani.net/Images/irregulars_muster_2008.jpgto the wandering in the woods--and alleys--of Hostigos in the footsteps of Calvin Morrison--and Beam Piper: https://web.archive.org/web/20080720085141...rd_Kalvan_page.htmlit's an all-around fantastic time. Dennis Frank wrote: > I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as > can come, too. I can tell you about my experiment > of walking from the Transposition Point to Vurth's > Farm last summer. I figured that recreating Calvin > Morrison's hike might help to firm up the location. > I got sore feet and a bit more confidence in my > previous suppositions. Dennis has been scouting Hostigos and surrounds for years; he's an excellent guide and a genuinely nice guy! If
you haven't yet made it for the annual Irregulars Muster I hope you'll
make it this year. (And if you're returning to Hostigos again this year
then you already know the wonderful time you're in for!) Down Styphon! David -- "You are my chieftain. That's another mark of the barbarian." - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper), ~Space Viking~ ~ Edited 02-03-2018 04:00
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Jon Crocker 02-03-2018
01:37 UT
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But if you'd already sent him the money, why'd he ask me, too?
Obviously I got that one before reading the warning, ah well.
Thanks for the tip about the JTAS article, I'll have to dig that one out to have a read.
And best of luck at this year's Muster, I hope it goes well!
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Tanith in Oz 02-02-2018
02:52 UT
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Lol. I didn't notice the second R. Good catch there. Somehow I really
didn't think John was stranded in the Philippines, that made no sense.
Thanks for the condolences. Losing Dad has rocked my universe somewhat.
Regards
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 02-02-2018
02:22 UT
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~
Terry "Tanith in Oz" Glouftsis wrote:
> My father passed away in November last year and I've
> had to deal with a number of things.
Sorry to hear that, Terry. Please accept my condolences.
> But I just wanted to put a warning out to the group.
> otherrwhen@aol.com, which is John Carr's Pequod Press
> email seems to have been hacked.
Thanks.
I got those messages too. You'll note there's an extra "r" in there
that's not in John's actual address. (In the message I received, John's
address was correct in the "Sent" field but that bad address was in the
"Reply-To" field.) I assume this was a "phishing" effort to get people
to reply to that bogus message (like I did). It was only after I'd
replied that I got the message asking me to send him some money in the
Philippines. . . .
> If you're reading this John, or if someone can get a
> message to him this is something he will need to get
> fixed (if possible).
I've
sent a message to John now at his correct e-mail address. Not much for
him to do though. The hacked messages aren't actually coming from his
account, I think.
Cheers,
David
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Dennis Frank 02-02-2018
02:02 UT
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Hi Everyone,
This years Muster is going to be held on Saturday,
May 19, 2018. We will be meeting at the Waffle Shop on North Atherton in
State College at 10:00 a.m.
You're all invited! We hope to see lots of new faces this year.
I'll
be there, along with Dennis Frank (our gracious guide), my brother
Steve and Wolfgang, too. My latest novel, a new Space Viking novel,
"Space Viking's Return," is done and at Baen Books (They hold the
original contract). We'll be talking about that and lot of things Piper.
For
those of you who haven't heard, we lost Jerry Pournelle in September of
last year. He was friend and mentor and the last living adult who knew
Beam well; the end of an era....
John Carr
From Dennis Frank--
I'm
looking forward to seeing as many of you as can come, too. I can tell
you about my experiment of walking from the Transposition Point to
Vurth's Farm last summer. I figured that recreating Calvin Morrison's
hike might help to firm up the location. I got sore feet and a bit more
confidence in my previous suppositions. Until May! Dennis
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Tanith in Oz 02-02-2018
02:02 UT
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Hi all.
It's been awhile. I'm sorry for that. My father passed
away in November last year and I've had to deal with a number of things.
Getting better now.
But
I just wanted to put a warning out to the group. otherrwhen@aol.com,
which is John Carr's Pequod Press email seems to have been hacked. I
got an email today asking me to loan John $1900 because he is stuck in
the Philippines. I sincerely doubt this to be the case.
If you're reading this John, or if someone can get a message to him this is something he will need to get fixed (if possible).
Enjoy all, I'll be in touch soon.
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