[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by sabredog

I neglected to add those to my list.

(Speaking of the late H. Beam Piper.)

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.

Yep. Pournelle had corresponded with Piper, and claimed to have formal permission from Piper to write in his universe, though I don't believe he ever did.

The proximate cause for Piper's suicide was the unexpected death of his agent. His agent had essentially been keeping Piper's records in his head, and his death threw Piper's affairs into chaos. (I recall hearing back when that he was shooting pigeons from his window to get food.) Ironically, at the time he died, John W. Campbell was trying to find him because he'd purchased a Piper story for Analog SF Magazine.

The late George H. Scithers, who knew Piper socially, suggested that another reason for suicide was Piper's wife. Part of her demands when she married him was that he take out a large insurance policy with her as beneficiary. The marriage was apparently not a happy one, and death by suicide voided the policy so she saw no payoff.

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.

It was a lot of fun. It was one of several short novels published by Twayne Books based on a specification by Dr. John D. Clark for a world where Silicon instead of Carbon became the basis for life.

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.

Not that I'm aware of. I have a couple of the Lord Kalvan sequels, and have mixed feelings. The characters seem a bit off, and I don't think I agree with the direction in which John F. Carr was taking the story line.

I did know folks years back trying to work up a Lord Kalvan board game, starting with geological survey maps of the area in Pennsylvania where the storing took place, and developing rules for combat among units with a roughly 16th century level of technology.

There were also a couple of third party efforts set in the Fuzzy universe, that got published before the lost manuscript for the third Fuzzy novel, _Fuzzies and Other People_ was discovered.

One bit that remained lost was Piper's notebooks. He was one of the earliest SF writers to write stories in a common setting with a timeline, and had notebooks where he kept track of what he had done and planned to do. Those seem to have vanished.
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Dennis