Comments on: Not knowing Englishmen, they had not expected trouble

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:42:46 +0000

I just reread Piper's Murder in the Gunroom. As a pure mystery I think Jacque Barzun found it tolerable. The gun nut stuff is flawless, the Korzybsky stuff was chewy and quirky, and Piper snuck in a reference to a female disagreement as 'bush warfare' that would not have got past Campbell.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:26:49 +0000

King David’s Spaceship isn’t half-bad, either…

Precisely none of H. Beam Piper’s oeuvre is a bad read; even his hackish stuff is well-wrought and satisfying.

It’s too bad that his financial situation was such that he felt he had to end it all at such an early age. I’d have liked to have seen what he would have written later in life.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:29:39 +0000

I found Space Viking oddly compelling — but I should note that it's not in the same vein as The High Crusade; it's not literally about Vikings getting a space ship.

By: Space Nookie

Space Nookie — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 01:18:59 +0000

Space Viking is available from the Gutenberg Project:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20728

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:53:23 +0000

If a digital copy of Canticle appeared at my rarely checked backup email address, I would not object: isegoria dot parrhesia at gmail dot com.

By: Chedolf

Chedolf — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:30:10 +0000

I have A Canticle for Leibowitz in MOBI form, if you want it.

By: Benjamin Espen

Benjamin Espen — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:02:56 +0000

I've been meaning to read The High Crusade for some time. This just makes me want to even more. I've got quite a bit of airplane time coming soon, I may just have to purchase a copy.

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:36:55 +0000

re: “… Incidentally, Canticle [for Leibowitz] is not available for Kindle.”

Funny, I have on my iMac a readable PDF of Canticle for Leibowitz. Heaven knows where I obtained it. Never read it in the 60s or 70s but I read it on the iMac’s screen about a year ago. Great read for sure.

Send me your e-mail and I will send you the PDF.