Piper: 773 books

He’s a rock legend … she’s just a face in the crowd—but their secret past is about to be uncovered. Once, good girl Cara Carter rebelled in a wild Las Vegas night with teen idol Brady. Convinced that she could never be enough for him, she ran home to family responsibilities, covering...

Paula Kasper had dropped out of the Psychology program at the University of Texas in her junior year to open a hair salon south of Downtown Austin. An hour of hairdressing and scalp massages usually obliterated her clients’ inhibitions, and they unburdened themselves of their most intimate dilemmas. Sudsy-haired,...

Summary: Gala's boyfriend, Elan, is the kind of guy most folks wouldn't approve of. So the two of them need to sneak away every time they want to spend time together. But Elan is sweet, and strong, and loves spending time with Gala. More importantly, he's real enthusiastic about helping...

“Stay away from the water, the killing water that will shiver your bones and suck your breath.” At first adolescent Seagren wants to obey, but she is caught between the tug of the sea and the pull of the land. She is That Other Kind, different. And illegal. Why? She doesn't know. Seagren rebells...

Marilyn has a special job, a job she truly loves. She's a scientist, working in a top secret lab, handling exotic and rare biological (sometimes supernatural) entities. But that's not the part that makes her love it. Marilyn loves her job because she's responsible for collecting samples...

Professor Tina Soares has spent months trying to research a mysterious alien plant to little success. When word of mysterious activity calls her down to the lab late one night, she can't help but be excited. But the plant has a naughty mind and plans of its own that will change the course of science...

H. Beam Piper's sequel to the science fiction classic Little Fuzzy. The small fuzzy species discovered on the planet Zarathustra has been declared sapient, but now that the Fuzzies are protected by law, the humans who have colonized Zarathustra have to figure out how to live with them...

In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H. Beam Piper’s excellent Terro-Human Future History series.

Science fiction luminary H. Beam Piper was fascinated with the idea of time travel, and it is a theme that appears frequently in his work. This early short story tells the tale of a wounded soldier who awakes after suffering a profound injury on the battlefield. Though he can remember everything about his life as an adult, he has somehow been transported back into his childhood body.

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Should a nation's political climate guide its scientific agenda, or should research exist in a separate realm that's unaffected by these types of considerations? That's the question at the heart of "The Mercenaries," a thought-provoking science fiction tale from H. Beam Piper. In a world divided by political...

This classic science fiction tale from H. Beam Piper takes place in the Federation universe that served as the setting for many of his stories. In the distant future, the inhabitants of the strange planet Poictesme have long heard rumors about a remarkably powerful computer that is hidden away right...

Six holiday romances, from sexy to sweet, prove love is better on the Naughty List. A Christmas Maggie by Tiffany Reisz All Daniel wanted for Christmas was to spoil his new girlfriend, Anya, make love under the tree, and ignore all his old heartaches. But the ghosts of Christmas past aren’t...

Her wings are smashed, her groombug gone. No dragon can live without a groombug, so Rumplewing must leave her clan and dieInstead, she reclaims life when she stumbles upon Balofur, a lone groombug, hideously scarred.No groombug can live without his dragon, so they join together. However...