JUNKYARD PLANET

BY H. BEAM PIPER

(aka THE COSMIC COMPUTER)

Included in this special edition:
• The novelette GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS, published in 1958. Piper expanded and revised GRAVEYARD considerably to turn it into JUNKYARD PLANET. According to Carr, there are a few key differences between the two versions, including details about the Systems States Alliance that do not exist in any other of Piper's stories.
• JUNKYARD PLANET in the Terro-Human Future History - an essay exploring the place of the novel in the future history timeline of H. Beam Piper's Federation and Empire stories.
• H. Beam Piper Biography

During the System States' War, Poictesme was the general HQ and supply depot for the final thrust at the enemy. When the war ended, the buildings, the munitions, the freeze-dried food supplies, were all abandoned without a thought. Now the colony world is a poverty-stricken agricultural society with only two exports: the fermented products of their world's unique melons, and the salvaged war equipment, now selling at about 1% of its true value.

And, persisting over the decades, is the legend of MERLIN, the super-computer said to have planned the grand strategy which successfully concluded the war. "If we could only find Merlin," the inhabitants said to each other, "all our problems would be solved."

Then young Conn Maxwell returned from Earth, with a university degree, and a few clues about the location and the true nature of Merlin. And no way to know if Merlin would be boon or the worst thing that could possibly happen to his home world.

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