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Junkyard Planet is a gripping science fiction novel set on the planet Poictesme, a world left in economic ruin after a galactic war. The story follows Conn Maxwell, a young man who returns to his home planet with knowledge of a legendary computer rumored to hold the key to... Read Full Overview

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Venture into the vast expanse of space in H. Beam Piper's "The Cosmic Computer," a timeless science fiction adventure. Humanity's future hinges on technology in this classic space opera, where the boundaries of possibility are pushed to their limits.

Venture into the vast expanse of space in H. Beam Piper's "The Cosmic Computer," a timeless science fiction adventure. Humanity's future hinges on technology in this classic space opera, where the boundaries of possibility are pushed to their limits.

A running theme in Piper's work is that history repeats itself; past events will have direct and clear analogues in the future.

When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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The Cosmic Computer

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped... Read Full Overview

The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction novel set on the planet Poictesme, a world left in economic ruin after serving as a strategic base during the System States War. The protagonist, Conn Maxwell, returns home from Terra after studying cybernetics, with the... Read Full Overview

The Cosmic Computer is a 1963 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper based on his short story "Graveyard of Dreams," which was published in the February 1958 issue of Galaxy Magazine.The action largely takes place on the planet Poictesme, which is full of abandoned military installations... Read Full Overview