{"id":1637,"date":"2010-03-07T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2010-03-07T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:33:53","slug":"scifi-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/science-fiction\/scifi-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"SciFi Sunday: H. Beam Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0addition\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Picks<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/Friday_Movie_picks.html\">Friday B-Movie posts<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be posting about Science Fiction on random Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>To kick things off, I am starting with one of my favorite SciFi authors, H. Beam Piper. Piper was in inspiration to many in the field today, including the massively best selling author, David Weber.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of H. Beam Piper&#8217;s works are available in the public domain. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/baencd.thefifthimperium.com\/Gutenberg%20SF%20200703%20CD\/Gutenberg%20SF%20200703\/#Piper.2C_H._Beam.2C_1904-1964\">find them<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/baencd.thefifthimperium.com\/Gutenberg%20SF%20200703%20CD\/\">Gutenberg&#8217;s SF CD<\/a>, and there are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksshouldbefree.com\/search?cx=partner-pub-5879764092668092:wdqcfbe9xi9&amp;cof=FORID:10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=H.+Beam+Piper&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=www.booksshouldbefree.com\/\">audiobook format versions available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorites are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/084396071X\/eclipsswebwarren\">Space Viking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=92\">Uller Uprising<\/a>, but you should take the time to read his entire catalog. \u00a0Sadly, it is not as large as it should have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0addition\u00a0to the Monday Book Picks and the Friday B-Movie posts, I&#8217;ll be posting about Science Fiction on random Sundays. To kick things off, I am starting with one of my favorite SciFi authors, H. Beam Piper. Piper was in inspiration to many in the field today, including the massively best selling author, David Weber. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[374,527,696,697,739],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sunday-scifi","tag-h-beam-piper","tag-military-science-fiction","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-sunday-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-qp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}