Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of futuristic science fiction, this novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition of The Cosmic Computer is complete and unabridged.Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The Junkyard Planet" because of all the military equipment left behind after the last war. Conn claims he has found the location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been left behind. But is Merlin real, or just a myth? And if Conn does have access to Merlin, will the computer save Poictesme -- or tear the world apart?
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2017-07-05T22:08:43Z with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and equipment—hence the novel’s original name, Junkyard Planet. Young Conn Maxwell returns from Earth with long-awaited news about Merlin, a military computer with god-like abilities long rumored to be hidden somewhere on Poictesme. Though convinced that the story is just a myth, Conn and his father use the purported search for Merlin to drive the revitalization of the planet’s economy. In the process, they discover far more than they expected. As was typical for science fiction novels of the pulp era, there is little character development and women play a minor role, with romance given only a token treatment. The emphasis is on the conflicts over the spoils of the planet and the fiercely competitive search for the titular “cosmic computer.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are. But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin -- Is there really a Merlin? That's what Conn Maxwell asked, and the question irked those who heard it. Of course it did Merlin meant everything to the folks on the planet Poictesme: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited. But the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't The search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Everybody believed that when this super-gigantic computer was located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for everyone. Conn Maxwell knew different. He had studied the records on Earth and he thought he knew the true facts about this cosmic computer. To tell them would be to panic, so instead he set about a new search in his own way -- with startling results. * H. Beam Piper, author of Space Viking and Little Fuzzy, was rather enigmatic where his personal statistics were concerned (or so the original blurb to this novel said). He lived in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, it said, and also that he was an expert on the history and use of hand weapons. When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and that he was highly rated among readers for his skill and imagination. He had published several novels, mostly SF, but also including mysteries and juveniles. But that blurb was written just before he tookhis own life in the noise and nonsense that come out of divorce . . . sigh. Some things happen so large upon our lives that they seem to blot out all that goes before . . .
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmic Computer By H. Beam Piper
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by Henry Beam Piper and published by Indo-Europeanpublishing.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmic Computer (Original Title: Junkyard Planet) is science fiction novel by Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 - c. November 6, 1964) who was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer Illustrated written by Henry Beam Piper and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the System States' War, Poictesme was the general HQ and supply depot for the final thrust at the enemy. When the war ended, the buildings, the munitions, the freeze-dried food supplies, were all abandoned without a thought.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by Beam Henry Piper and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cosmic Web written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary thought. She then explores the literary strategies that are attributable directly or indirectly to the new paradigm; among the texts at which she looks closely are Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nabokov’s Ada, D. H. Lawrence’s early novels and essays, Borges’s fiction, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
Download or read book THE COSMIC COMPUTER Terro Human Future History Novel written by H. Beam Piper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
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Download or read book Lone Star Planet written by H. Beam Piper and published by Perennial Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge that the s'Srauff are evolved from canine ancestors -- and not a Texan alive is about to be scared of a talking dog! But unless he can get them to act, and fast, there won't be a Texan alive, scared or otherwise!
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by Henry Piper and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty minutes to Litchfield.
