Joachim BoazH. Beam Piper (1904-1964) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?47
L, Michael Whelan, 1981; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1957
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Cadbury MooseIn a sane society H. Beam Piper would have received support and the world would have had a lot more stories.
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@Cadbury_Moose I agree. However, very few SF writers existed who did not have a primary job (even prolific authors like Simak had a career). He is not an exception in struggling to get by without a second job (after he lost his first one). He also had the really troubling tendency to spend an entire payment for a story on expensive clothes, rare guns, and booze while complaining about government expenditure to help the lesser off.
Scarab (Sarah)@SFRuminations Omnilingual (second cover) is very good. I think @TrishEM read it for Librivox, or at any rate is also a fan of that story. I haven't read much else Piper.
@Configures @TrishEM These are just birthday posts. They do not really speak in anything but a tangential way to my interests. For those, check out the site and the discussions over there! For example, my 2025 in review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/01/02/my-2025-in-review-best-science-fiction-novels-and-short-fiction-reading-initiatives-and-bonus-categories/
My 2025 in Review (Best Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, Reading Initiatives, and Bonus Categories)
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