Talk:H. Beam Piper
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[edit] What a difference a word makes
Changed "...which concern the recognition of a peculiar alien species as sentient." to "...which concern the recognition of a peculiar alien species as sapient." which reflects the word usage in the Fuzzy books.
H. Beam Piper was one of the few SF authors to not incorrectly use sentient to refer to intelligent, self aware beings.
OK, can anybody be more specific about what aspects of this article need to be cleaned up? - Gladmax
I have done some cleanup of the introduction and biography sections, including attributing the specifics of his suicide to Pournelle, who wrote about it in his introduction to the Ace reprint of Little Fuzzy. - Gladmax
Oops, I just noticed this: The introduction lists his day of death as 1964-11-11, while his bio lists it as 1964-11-09. which is correct? - gladmax
Apparently[1] the date of his death is actually unknown, as his body was not discovered for some time. The last entry in his diary is November 5 ("Rain 0930"). Here's a report that his body was found on November 9. Here's a posting that mentions his last substantial diary entry, on November 4, about the 1964 presidential election. There may be other useful information in that list if someone wants to read it all. John F. Carr is apparently still working on his Piper biography, but given that he posted the first chapter in 1988, it may be a while. Still, the hostigos.com site is about Piper and is being kept up to date, so there is still hope. 192.35.100.1 01:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I fixed the Project Gutenberg links as per the Project Gutenberg Linking Policy
Apparently a whole bunch of his books have recently gone back into print (according to amazon.com).
[edit] comment
This was put in out-of-place, but maybe something can be said about Piper's beliefs in reincarnation and time.
- "H. Beam Piper had a simple idea-that the world we live in was merely a reflection of possibilities that could be broken into segments based on major historical turning points. This was expressed in his PARATIME! series in no uncertain terms, making him unique in science fiction history in that IF the multiple worlds theory is proved, he has already given a method for delineation to identify recognizable groupings of multi-verse segments."
—wwoods 17:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] date of discovery of dead body
According to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette dated Mon, Nov. 9th, 1964, police discovered the body in the early morning of that same day. I would assume that the body was indeed found on the 9th.
