Federation by H. Beam Piper

Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H. Beam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Science Fiction; American
ISBN: 9780441231911
Publisher: Ace
Published: 1952-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Introduction to "Graveyard of Dreams"

When I first heard of this particular story, Bill Tuning and several other people told me, don't bother it's just the short version of COSMIC COMPUTER. But I traced down a copy anyway; for one, as a collector I'm a completist, and for another, "Graveyard of Dreams" occupies a very interesting place in the Piper cannon. It and COSMIC COMPUTER are the last two tales of the Terran Federation. And what if it contained some vital piece of information not in the novel… after all, there are some very fundamental differences between the novel version and serial version of ULLER UPRISING.

So I went down to Collector's Bookstore in Hollywood; if its an old pulp or movie poster you're looking for nine times out of ten they have it—if you can pay the price. The moment I got home I began to read… and eureka! Not only does Conn Maxwell, the young hero, end up with a different girl—Lynne Fawzi instead of Sylvie Jacquemont—but there is a gold mine of new information about the System States Alliance, the economic alliance that threatened the stability of the Federation.

Between "Graveyard of Dreams" and Space Viking, the next TerroHuman Future History story, there is a gap of some seven hundred to eight hundred years.

At the end of COSMIC COMPUTER we are left with the feeling that with the help of Merlin mankind might, if not change, avert this coming Age of Darkness. But in Space Viking, written either just before or just after Cosmic Computer, there is no mention of either Conn Maxwell's world Poictesme or Merlin; instead we have a galaxy of Space Vikings and Neo-barbarians… Someday we might discover a missing story that bridges these two novels, but until we do, COSMIC COMPUTER and "Graveyard of Dreams" will stand as Piper's last statement on the grand Terran Federation.

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