{"id":1429,"date":"2019-03-23T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2019-03-23T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:08:25","slug":"revisiting-h-beam-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/revisiting-h-beam-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting H. Beam Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Henry Beam Piper was born on this day, March 23, in 1904.\u00a0 He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1964.<\/p>\n

Piper is not well known today, and that’s a shame.\u00a0 In his lifetime, he was best known for two series, The Paratime Police and the Terro-Human Future History, as well as the stand-alone short story “Omnilingual”.\u00a0 His best known novels include the Little Fuzzy subseries of his future series and Space Viking<\/em>, which was a major influence on Jerry Pournelle.\u00a0 Piper was a student of history who built his future history by using real history as a guide, similar to what Poul Anderson was doing with his Technic future history.<\/p>\n

I read most of Piper’s works that were in print when I was in high school, which was most of them.\u00a0 The only thing I didn’t read were the Paratime stories.\u00a0 For several years, I had a summer job flagging for a crop dusting company that was spring mesquite trees in cow pastures.\u00a0 What that means is that several men walked across the pasture in (hopefully) a line so the pilot would know where to spray.\u00a0 We would move out of the way ahead of the plane.\u00a0 (These days this is all done by GPS.)\u00a0 One summer I carried a Piper paperback in my backpack and read three or four of his books while I would wait for the plane to get a refill and come back.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll read one of the Paratime stories tonight to honor his memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henry Beam Piper was born on this day, March 23, in 1904.\u00a0 He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1964. Piper is not well known today, and that’s a shame.\u00a0 In his lifetime, he was best known for two series, The Paratime Police and the Terro-Human Future History, as well as the stand-alone short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[296],"tags":[775,858],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-h-beam-piper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-n3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}