Junkyard Planet

from librisissimo

Substance: A reasonably good example of 1960s science fiction, with somewhat more depth in political awareness and psychological shrewdness. Still in the Heinlein-libertarian mode, with vastly over-simplified perceptions of the technical difficulties in building space vehicles. A decent "mystery"...

from ikeman100

Typical H. Beam Piper. This book has a similar feel to other Piper books in that our hero is a young idealistic man on a different world. This book did not age well as it feels a little too 1950s. As with many early SF writers Piper made some guesses about the future which appear naive in retrosp...

from kaki5231

Great space opera. A further study of the H. Beam Piper universe with the planet Poictesme full of left over military after the aftermath of the System States war (think the US Civil War in Space). There is a myth of a hidden super computer that has been left on the planet (i.e.e the title) and t...

from misericordia

This is the book that sent me on a long journey. The journey of a life long reading of Science Fiction and Dungeons and Dragons. The Science Fiction part is clear. Space travel, laser guns etc. The D&D part? Well they are searching for treasure? Well worth finding and reading. Especially for read...

from dodavehu

This novel, set in Piper's Terrohuman Future History, is one of his best. Poictesme (pronounced "pwa-tem") is a backwater planet, its economy crashed in the aftermath of an interstellar civil war, its surface dotted with known and unknown installations from the war. Conn Maxwell, freshly returned...