Federation Series by H. Beam Piper

The four-armed reptilian natives of the planet Uller revolt against those who rule them.

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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.

Get set for rip-roaring adventure in this tale from the imagination of science fiction luminary H. Beam Piper. In the aftermath of a massive war, many once-developed planets have been reduced to rubble, and the few survivors have lost all vestiges of civilization. A group of so-called 'Space Vikings' have begun to roam the galaxy, snatching up everything valuable that has been left behind.

Little Fuzzies...Space Viking...Gunpowder God...Fuzzy Sapiens...At the time of his tragic death, H. Beam Piper was rapidly decoming acknowledged as peer and heir of authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Like Heinlein and Asimov, Piper had a towering vision, a Future History that transcended millennia, a vision in which the rise and fall of empires was the ebb and flow of the tides of destiny... moreLittle Fuzzies...Space Viking...Gunpowder God...Fuzzy Sapiens...At the time of his tragic death, H. Beam Piper was rapidly decoming acknowledged as peer and heir of authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Like Heinlein and Asimov, Piper had a towering vision, a Future History that transcended millennia, a vision in which the rise and fall of empires was the ebb and flow of the tides of destiny.Here then is the bedrock of that vision; a time ancient beyond reckoning, a time when Man had first ventured forth among the stars and was groping toward social norms that would sustain him in his new environment - a time of FEDERATION.Stories include:OmnilingualNaudsonceOomphel in the SkyGraveyard of DreamsWhen in the Course-Preface by Jerry PournelleIntroduction by John F. Carr less

Vintage paperbackContains the stories:Edge of the KnifeA Slave Is a SlaveMinistry of DisturbanceThe ReturnThe Keeper