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1DWWilkin
I think people joined this group probably from a great affinity for the works of Piper. He is one of my earliest favorites, and that goes back thirty years. If I don't read Kalvan every other year, or Space Vikings, then something must be wrong with me.
One thing we as fans might do is ensure that all Piper entries are reviewed and recommendations made to get others as enthused as we are.
One thing we as fans might do is ensure that all Piper entries are reviewed and recommendations made to get others as enthused as we are.
2DWWilkin
Space Viking review:
This story is in the genre of Space Opera, or even what is now called YA, though when Piper wrote it was most likely called Juvenile Fiction. It stays in print, people buy it, people reread it. I have read it virtually every other year for nearly thirty years. Not that it is great literature, but that it is a fun read. There are bad guys and good guys, quests, and evil deeds.
Along the way we are treated to what piper often does in the Terro-Human Federation stories, and that is get a glimpse of great political and economic theories at work. That the story spans many years shows how these forces work within the context so that gives us more than the hero who just swashbuckles through a story of derringdo. Our hero witnesses and influences the end of a the galactic dark ages and a new renaissance.
Piper committed suicide and left us without more. This book has always been in search of a sequel for though complete, Piper has left us wanting so much more. Recommending this book, I have read it fifteen to twenty times. I think it is good and always worth returning too.
This story is in the genre of Space Opera, or even what is now called YA, though when Piper wrote it was most likely called Juvenile Fiction. It stays in print, people buy it, people reread it. I have read it virtually every other year for nearly thirty years. Not that it is great literature, but that it is a fun read. There are bad guys and good guys, quests, and evil deeds.
Along the way we are treated to what piper often does in the Terro-Human Federation stories, and that is get a glimpse of great political and economic theories at work. That the story spans many years shows how these forces work within the context so that gives us more than the hero who just swashbuckles through a story of derringdo. Our hero witnesses and influences the end of a the galactic dark ages and a new renaissance.
Piper committed suicide and left us without more. This book has always been in search of a sequel for though complete, Piper has left us wanting so much more. Recommending this book, I have read it fifteen to twenty times. I think it is good and always worth returning too.
3DWWilkin
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen review:
This was not my first Piper, nor my second. I was well into reading Piper before discovering this, but wow, what an incredible adventure this started for me. And now with the continuations that Roland Green and John F. Carr have produced, this Kalvan Canon (That is a Pun) just grows and grows. Much like Hos-Hostigos.
I had long since read L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall, the story where a man of our times (and Calvin Morrison is a Pennsylvania State Trooper from the 50's or 60's) returns to another time where the use of the technology from now can change that past they have entered. We see it also in Leo Frankowski's Crosstime Engineer series. We see it often. We see it in the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, so we have Mark Twain laying out a format for this 100 years before Piper and those others I have cited.
What we have is the effective use of Pike and Musket, the English Civil War, the Thirty Years War, in an alternate universe centered on Pennsylvania. That is the premise. It works for me. There are not that many pages but within them we have the introduction, the ability to change society, the ability to stabilize a country headed to defeat and turn it around.
Our hero emerges as just that, a hero. Our villains are men who want power. All the elements are there and in under 250 pages we have it all. Battles, derring-do, a little romance. A great romp that I return to again and again.
This was not my first Piper, nor my second. I was well into reading Piper before discovering this, but wow, what an incredible adventure this started for me. And now with the continuations that Roland Green and John F. Carr have produced, this Kalvan Canon (That is a Pun) just grows and grows. Much like Hos-Hostigos.
I had long since read L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall, the story where a man of our times (and Calvin Morrison is a Pennsylvania State Trooper from the 50's or 60's) returns to another time where the use of the technology from now can change that past they have entered. We see it also in Leo Frankowski's Crosstime Engineer series. We see it often. We see it in the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, so we have Mark Twain laying out a format for this 100 years before Piper and those others I have cited.
What we have is the effective use of Pike and Musket, the English Civil War, the Thirty Years War, in an alternate universe centered on Pennsylvania. That is the premise. It works for me. There are not that many pages but within them we have the introduction, the ability to change society, the ability to stabilize a country headed to defeat and turn it around.
Our hero emerges as just that, a hero. Our villains are men who want power. All the elements are there and in under 250 pages we have it all. Battles, derring-do, a little romance. A great romp that I return to again and again.
4DWWilkin
Fuzzy Papers reviewed:
This is a dual book combining Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens, and though I have read it several times, my memory, specifically is a little fuzzy. Charming, heart-warming are keywords that I can attribute to these tales. It deals with our human expansion to the stars and our encountering those little green martians we have always expected. Accept they are not what we have thought.
That have not always been there in their UFO's spying on us, or are part of a xenocidal race that wants our extinction. If anything man wants to see the end of the alien. Perhaps bleeding heart liberals would be the thought of the defender of the Fuzzy, but Piper writes of Fuzzy in such a way as to make then an endearing race. Part little child, part puppy dog, if my memory is correct.
The conflict is that if there are alien intelligences out there, who owns that world. We have see C. J. Cherryh look at this from a distance in Downbelow Station, and the same with Weber in On Basilisk Station, but those books were not focused on the thought of someone speaking up for that Alien's rights and ensuring that they are protected. That is the plot line here. We have a company world that wants to exploit the world, we have a native intelligence that needs to be defended working within the system, but unable to articulate for themselves their defense. Hence a really great set of books that led to two additional authors writing books about them, and then years after Piper's death, a third tome being unearthed and published.
This is a dual book combining Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens, and though I have read it several times, my memory, specifically is a little fuzzy. Charming, heart-warming are keywords that I can attribute to these tales. It deals with our human expansion to the stars and our encountering those little green martians we have always expected. Accept they are not what we have thought.
That have not always been there in their UFO's spying on us, or are part of a xenocidal race that wants our extinction. If anything man wants to see the end of the alien. Perhaps bleeding heart liberals would be the thought of the defender of the Fuzzy, but Piper writes of Fuzzy in such a way as to make then an endearing race. Part little child, part puppy dog, if my memory is correct.
The conflict is that if there are alien intelligences out there, who owns that world. We have see C. J. Cherryh look at this from a distance in Downbelow Station, and the same with Weber in On Basilisk Station, but those books were not focused on the thought of someone speaking up for that Alien's rights and ensuring that they are protected. That is the plot line here. We have a company world that wants to exploit the world, we have a native intelligence that needs to be defended working within the system, but unable to articulate for themselves their defense. Hence a really great set of books that led to two additional authors writing books about them, and then years after Piper's death, a third tome being unearthed and published.
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