All Reviews by Arthur Piantadosi
My Father's Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett
OH My!! I read this book and its successors when I was a kid. So did my dad. Ruth Stiles Garnett is one of the best children's book writers EVER!!
Day of the Moron
by H. Beam Piper
considering it was published, oh about 20 YEARS before three Mile island or Chernobyl, it is pretty accurate to what would really happen.
He Walked Around the Horses
by H. Beam Piper
Both an Alternative history like Piper's Indo-European Volkswanderung Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and a subtle joke on the reader if he is not knowledgable of the Napoleonic Period. Look up Arthur Wellsely!
Little Fuzzy
by H. Beam Piper
Looking back on this magnificent book, It makes me wonder if this is where George Lucas got the idea for the Ewoks. I love anything by H. Beam Piper
The Misplaced Battleship
by Harry Harrison
Short Story that is part of the first Stainless Steel Rat book, and a wonderful story
Null-ABC
by H. Beam Piper
One of the finest of Piper's works. It is a tale in which all people who read are in a high tech scribes class, and treat other people badly. A frightening tale, but hopeful
Operation R.S.V.P.
by H. Beam Piper
Both very funny and very clever. The Russians and the Chinese keep bluffing each other with worse and worse nukes and plagues, but then AFGHANISTAN calls their bluff and ends the Cold War!