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Graveyard of Dreams Kindle Edition

by H. Beam Piper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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    26 pages
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    English
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  4. Publication date
    March 24, 2011
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    162 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TPSOUA
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 162 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 26 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1978219571
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful fantasy reading
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2021
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Due to eye issues Alexa reads to me, a will written fantasy Sci-Fi space opera. The story is different with a young man 🚹returning home after going to 😎college on terran. He comes back to all the questions about the War so many years before. I would recommend this novella to readers of fantasy Sci-Fi. Enjoy reading 🔰2021😇
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M. DeKalb
3.0 out of 5 stars Typical Sci-Fi.
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2012
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Returning to Poietesme after five years, Conn Maxwell is essentially returning to a wasteland. It's a planetoid too far out to be considered a viable part of a shipping route and too depleted of resources to be greatly measured as an economic force.

Conn is expected to bring news of the 'Third Fleet Army Brain'. This is reportedly a military super-computer which can predetermine any military move before it happens. Conn was sent to Terra (Earth) to study computer engeneering so that he could re-program the Brain after he locates it or so that he could train other personnel to operate the machine once he'd done his part.

Conn's plan is to ultimately re-establish Poietesme as an economic power as opposed to being constantly ripped off by the other, more trade-successful planets. As it stands the location of the Brain is undetermined... thusly provoking some sort of hope in Poietesme's inhabitants is necessary, and a just evil if anybody is ever to pull themselves out of the mire.

Almost stereotypic sci-fi with many imaginary places and mythologicly based names, silly concepts and just a touch of any relevant human condition. Ultimately neither impressive nor a total let down, but fairly forgettable.
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Mark G
4.0 out of 5 stars Quick HB Piper strontium
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2017
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Well written and thought out. Not much of a story though, he wrote a funk novel based on this short story, this will just wet your appetite for more. on sent off a poor world to terra to learn, this story is his arrival home after 5 years studying
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Sleazey
5.0 out of 5 stars The origin of "Cosmic Computer"
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2016
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The original story that Piper later turned into "Cosmic Computer". A great read, but since I read CC first as a teenager, I have always liked it better; longer and more detailed than the story.
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Thomas Lane
5.0 out of 5 stars Good story - expanded to novel in The Cosmic Computer
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014
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Good story - expanded to novel in The Cosmic Computer. Both good reads - as to be expected from H Beam Piper.
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David Johnson
2.0 out of 5 stars Another Flight From Tomorrow?
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2007
With the transition of much of H. Beam Piper's work into the public domain publishers like Wildside Press have finally begun to bring Piper's work back into print and for that fans of Piper owe them a debt of gratitude. But this collection is a particularly odd choice. Four of its five stories were also reissued in Wildside's  Flight from Tomorrow: Science Fiction Stories . The title story here is an intriguing novela that was later expanded by Piper into the novel The Cosmic Computer (originally published as  Junkyard Planet ) but this story only introduces the plot that is finished in the novel. Two other stories, "The Answer" and "Operation R.S.V.P.," are cautionary tales from the Cold War era of Mutually-Assured Destruction (MAD) that will seem outdated to contemporary readers. "Genesis," a story of ancient Martian explorers crash-landed on Earth is seem by most Piper fans as the "genesis" of Piper's Paratime yarns. The only new story in this collection, "Last Enemy," is perhaps the most interesting. It's one of Piper's Paratime tales about the political ramifications resulting from the discovery of reincarnation.
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D. H. Tiffany
3.0 out of 5 stars Yet another re-package of Piper
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2007
Another collection of un-related Piper stories. In the 80's version from Ace (which at least tried to keep the related stories together) these were found in_Paratime_, _Federation_, & _Worlds of H. Beam Piper_
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Cynthia Ball
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2013
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Bought for my uncle who loves this series. He has had them before but wore them all out from rereading them over and over.
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C. J. Tindall
3.0 out of 5 stars Just an intro
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2018
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Really just the start of the full length story 'The Cosmic Computer', so read that instead.
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