Henry H Beam Piper Books in Order

British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst steps around a team of horses and enters a world whose history contradicts everything he knows. Letters and official reports follow the authorities’ attempts to explain this bewildering stranger and his claims.

An escaped Venusian nighthound stalks livestock on a twentieth-century Earth. Paratime Police operative Verkan Vall must destroy the dangerous creature before its discovery reveals the existence of travelers who move secretly between parallel versions of history.

In a parallel society where reincarnation can be scientifically investigated, researcher Hadron Dalla’s discoveries threaten established political beliefs. Verkan Vall enters a world of professional assassins and competing factions to find her and protect the Paratime secret.

Travelers exploiting an alternate world use staged religious miracles to secure mining rights. When workers fall into a king’s hands, Verkan Vall must intervene before interrogation exposes the technology that allows the outsiders to cross between timelines.

Human colonists and commercial interests face a widespread rebellion on the alien world of Uller. As relations with its inhabitants collapse into violence, the settlers struggle to survive the consequences of conquest, exploitation, and mutual distrust.

A gun collector’s death is ruled accidental, but his widow hires detective and firearms expert Jeff Rand to assess the collection. Rival buyers, family tensions, and evidence in the gunroom lead him to suspect murder.

Verkan Vall and Hadron Dalla postpone a holiday when the Paratime Police uncover evidence of slavery in the Esaron Sector. Their investigation follows criminals whose trade across parallel worlds threatens both its victims and the secrecy of Paratime travel.

The Solar League sends an ambassador to New Texas, a fiercely independent world where citizens carry guns and politicians face unusual accountability. With an alien threat approaching, he must persuade the settlers that cooperation has value.

Teenage reporter Walter Boyd covers life on Fenris, where extreme temperatures and dangerous sea-monster hunting shape the economy. A visiting writer’s arrival draws him into conflicts involving the hunters, their valuable harvest, and corrupt local power.

Prospector Jack Holloway befriends small, furry creatures on Zarathustra and believes they are intelligent people. Proving their status threatens the company that controls the planet, setting up a struggle over science, legal rights, and commercial power.

A Terran expedition encounters an alien farming society whose apparent language resists every attempt at translation. As misunderstandings strain first contact, the explorers must question their assumptions about sound, perception, and what communication requires between species.

Conn Maxwell returns to impoverished Poictesme, where residents believe a lost military computer named Merlin could restore their fortunes. Their obsession drives a search through abandoned installations, while Conn weighs the uses and dangers of that shared hope.

In the aftermath of interstellar collapse, Trask commands a raiding ship among the feared Space Vikings. His attacks serve a personal pursuit of a renegade enemy, drawing him into rival ambitions and the struggle to rebuild political order.

Now legally recognized as intelligent beings, Zarathustra’s Fuzzies must find a place alongside human settlers. Jack Holloway and the planetary authorities confront questions of guardianship, survival, and crime as the former ruling company adjusts to losing its monopoly.

Following the recognition of the Fuzzies’ intelligence, humans on Zarathustra face the practical consequences of sharing their world. This sequel to Little Fuzzy follows new partnerships and threats to the small aliens, and was later titled Fuzzy Sapiens.

Pennsylvania state trooper Calvin Morrison is accidentally carried into a parallel North America divided into warring kingdoms. His knowledge of gunpowder and military tactics challenges a priesthood’s monopoly as he helps the threatened principality of Hostigos.

This omnibus combines Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens. Prospector Jack Holloway’s discovery of intelligent aliens threatens a planetary company’s charter, then raises questions about how humans and Fuzzies can live together under a new legal order.

Edited by John F. Carr, this collection brings together five stories, including The Edge of the Knife, Ministry of Disturbance, and The Keeper. Political power, foreknowledge, and civilization’s changing fortunes connect tales largely set within Piper’s future history.

Five stories explore Piper’s Terran Federation, including Omnilingual, Naudsonce, and Oomphel in the Sky. Encounters with alien cultures and the problems of exploration unfold alongside an introduction by John F. Carr and a preface by Jerry Pournelle.

This volume combines the Paratime stories with Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Police guard the secret of travel between parallel worlds, while an accidentally displaced Pennsylvania trooper brings modern knowledge into a society dominated by a gunpowder-controlling priesthood.

Benson Parker adapts Little Fuzzy from the small alien’s perspective, with illustrations by Michael Whelan. The inhabitants of Zarathustra depend on human allies to prove their intelligence and defend their rights against those who threaten their existence.

Jack Holloway continues working to protect the Fuzzies as humans and aliens learn to share Zarathustra. Little Fuzzy’s separation from him brings another group of Fuzzies into contact with the developing community, while legal disputes threaten their security.

This omnibus collects Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens, and Fuzzies and Other People. Jack Holloway’s friendship with Zarathustra’s small aliens leads from the fight to establish their intelligence to the difficulties of building a society where both species coexist.

Six stories and novellas follow journeys between parallel worlds, including He Walked Around the Horses, Police Operation, and Time Crime. Piper’s travelers and investigators confront dangerous intrusions, criminal exploitation, and the need to keep their technology secret.

This collection includes Genesis, He Walked Around the Horses, Police Operation, Last Enemy, Time Crime, and Temple Trouble. Across alternate histories, displaced people and Paratime investigators encounter alien threats, slavery, religious manipulation, and the dangers of crossing worlds.

John F. Carr’s new stories join selected Paratime tales by H. Beam Piper. Missing travelers, a long-lost conveyor, and unusual ways of crossing timelines expand the problems faced by Verkan Vall and the police protecting interworld travel’s secret.

Written with John J. McGuire and also known as Null-ABC, this novel depicts a future divided between a literate guild and an illiterate majority. Education, political manipulation, and control of information become battlegrounds for the society’s direction.