Books by H Beam Piper
“Piper is one of those writers of the 40s, 50s and ’60s who is not remembered well enough. And I think this is one of his two best books, the other being Space Viking. It’s set in western Pennsylvania, in the area where he lived his whole life, so it has the local colour baked in. It drops a policeman from our world into a world where the Indo-Europeans, instead of having gone west across Asia and into Europe as they did in most timelines, went east – they went across by raft and boat, and settled North America.” Read more...
Interviews where books by H Beam Piper were recommended
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The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World
by Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Denis Rodier (illustrator) -
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson -
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The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler -
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
by Roger Crowley -
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Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
by Anna Reid -
6
In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes
Popular Books of the Last Month
Popular Books of the Last Month
After reading interviews on Five Books, which books did our readers buy? Below you’ll find some of our popular books from last month, August 2024.
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