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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
They are indeed part of the Federation universe, about mid-period when the Federation was still in full flower. _The Cosmic Computer_ predicts the fall of the Federation, as the war with the break-away System States Alliance emphasized the fault lines along which the Federation will fracture. _Space Viking_ is set after the fall, as raiding parties from colonies on the fringes of the former Federation raid back into what had been Federation space, and inadvertently provide the foundation of a new interstellar civilization.
I have Little Fuzzy in e-format, as well as a good deal of other Piper material. I haven't seen _The Other Human Race_ or _Fuzzies and Other People_ in e-form yet, but that may be a matter of folks just not being finished with the conversion. Ace had the rights to Piper's work, and inexplicably let all of it save _Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen_ lapse.
A friend is a small press publisher, busy returning Edgar Pangborn and E. E. Smith's "Lensman" series to print. He had been talking to Ace about the rights to do limited edition trade hardcover editions of Piper. Ace was willing, as his books weren't aimed at their market, but their rights and permissions folks were tied up with other things and hadn't gotten around the the paperwork for him. He was quite boggled when they let the rights lapse. Given some of the stories I've heard about publishing, I can't help wondering whether they let the rights lapse because they'd forgotten they had them.
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Dennis
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I neglected to add those to my list. Superb series by a sadly underrated author who was convinced he was a failure and took his own life. Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium series was influenced by Piper's writings.
I picked up Uller Uprising as a young bloke of 15 and devoured it. Superb book which I still have. Got to love Gen Karlos Von Schlichten! Piper was a student of Future History so he wrote his future history series based on important historical events on earth. Uller Uprising was based on the Sepoy rebellion in India.
The other books are equally as good, particularly the Paratime novels.
I am sure I heard somewhere there was a tribute Paratime series written somewhere and not just the Lord Kalvan sequels.