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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 239016" data-attributes="member: 203">Although his works are getting more and more difficult to find I would still recommend H. Beam Piper.  His most famous books were the Fuzzy novels focusing on a 'new human' race and its probelms dealing with the 'old human' race.Piper wrote Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies and Other People (although the last one was published years after his death when the original manuscript was rediscovered).  A few other wrote stories based on Piper's writings but never really caputured Piper's sense storytelling.Piper also wrote Space Viking a 'space opera' novel that is my personal favourite for its portrayal of revenge and what makes civilization work (and fall apart).Other books to look for areFederation (a collection of stories taking place during the rise of the Terran Federation, these also help form the Terro-Human Future History that all of the above takes place in)Empire (set many years after Federation in which the Fed. has collapsed and been replaced by the Galactic Empire - not as bad as it sounds.  this also has some of Piper most enigmatic stories - The Keeper and A Slave is a Slave for example).Cosmic Computer (a.k.a. Junkyard Planet)  Set in the years between the fall of the Federation and the rise of the Empire this has some wonderful background on the THFH and the overall themes behind it.Outside of the THFH there are also the Paratime novels.  These revolve around a society that has mastered a form of interdimensional time travel yet not FTL drive.  The the time travellers use the alternate Earths (sort of like the idea behind the TV show Sliders) as deposits of natural resources with the highest priority given to protecting the Paratime Secret from any other society.  There are two main books for this series;Paratime!  A collection of short stories involving Verkan Vall, and agent for the Paratime Police - charged wioth keeping the Paratime secret at all costs.Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen  Possibly Piper's best work.  It involves a man from 20th century earth landing in a world where gunpowder is a religious commodity and controlled by a sect of priests.  'Lord Kalvan' uses his knowledge to break the monopoly of House Styphon but attracts the attention of the Paratime Police as well.So there is my recommendation.  I could, of course, add dozens more authors to the list but most of my favourites have already been mentioned - I just like to direct people to HBP whenever I can <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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