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Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-12-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494762513 |
A masterpiece of futuristic science fiction, this novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition of The Cosmic Computer is complete and unabridged.Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The Junkyard Planet" because of all the military equipment left behind after the last war. Conn claims he has found the location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been left behind. But is Merlin real, or just a myth? And if Conn does have access to Merlin, will the computer save Poictesme -- or tear the world apart?
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : Aegypan |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781603121941 |
There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are. But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin -- Is there really a Merlin? That's what Conn Maxwell asked, and the question irked those who heard it. Of course it did Merlin meant everything to the folks on the planet Poictesme: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited. But the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't The search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Everybody believed that when this super-gigantic computer was located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for everyone. Conn Maxwell knew different. He had studied the records on Earth and he thought he knew the true facts about this cosmic computer. To tell them would be to panic, so instead he set about a new search in his own way -- with startling results. * H. Beam Piper, author of Space Viking and Little Fuzzy, was rather enigmatic where his personal statistics were concerned (or so the original blurb to this novel said). He lived in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it said, and also that he was an expert on the history and use of hand weapons. When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and that he was highly rated among readers for his skill and imagination. He had published several novels, mostly SF, but also including mysteries and juveniles. But that blurb was written just before he tookhis own life in the noise and nonsense that come out of divorce . . . sigh. Some things happen so large upon our lives that they seem to blot out all that goes before . . .
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2017-04-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781545166710 |
The Cosmic Computer By H. Beam Piper
Author | : Henry Beam Piper |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781530036356 |
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam PIPER (1904 - 1964) Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet," with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart? (by Mark Nelson)
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781536940688 |
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet," with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart?Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 - c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales. He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper. Another source gives his name as "Horace Beam Piper" and a different date of death. His gravestone says "Henry Beam Piper." Piper himself may have been the source of part of the confusion; he told people the H stood for Horace, encouraging the assumption that he used the initial because he disliked his name.
Author | : Henry Beam Piper |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-01-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
During the System States' War, Poictesme was the general HQ and supply depot for the final thrust at the enemy. When the war ended, the buildings, the munitions, the freeze-dried food supplies, were all abandoned without a thought.
Author | : Beam Henry Piper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781435301092 |
Author | : N. Katherine Hayles |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501722972 |
From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary thought. She then explores the literary strategies that are attributable directly or indirectly to the new paradigm; among the texts at which she looks closely are Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nabokov’s Ada, D. H. Lawrence’s early novels and essays, Borges’s fiction, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8026893530 |
Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.