ULLER UPRISING: Terro-Human Future History Novel

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H. Beam Piper. ULLER UPRISING: Terro-Human Future History Novel

ULLER UPRISING: Terro-Human Future History Novel

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Prologue

On Satan's Footstool

I. Commander-in-Chief Front and Center

II. Rakkeed, Stalin, and the Rev. Keeluk

III. Four-and-Twenty Geek Heads

IV. If You Read It in Stanley-Browne

V. You Can Depend on It It's Wrong

VI. The Bad News Came After the Coffee

VII. Bismillah! How Dumb Can We Get?

VIII. Authority of Governor-General von Schlichten

IX. Don't Push Them Anywhere Put Them Back in the Bottle

X. The Geek Luftwaffe and the Kragan Airlift

XI. Of Princedoms Which Have Been Won by Conquest

XII. The Shadow of Niflheim

XIII. A Bag of Tricks We Don't Have

XIV. The Reviewers Panned Hell Out of It

XV. A Place in my Heart for Hildegarde

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H. Beam Piper

I. Commander-in-Chief Front and Center

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"Lose him?"

"Yes, his year's up; he's going back to Uller on the Canberra. You know, it's impossible to keep some trace of fluorine from the air in the handling-machines, or even out on the orbiters, and it plays the devil with their lungs. He wanted to stay on another three months, to help with the next shot, but the medics wouldn't hear of it.... He's from Keegark, wherever on Uller that is; claims to be a prince, or something. I know all the other geeks kowtow to him. But he's a damn good worker. Very smart; picks things up the first time you tell him. I'll recommend him unqualifiedly for any kind of work with contragravity or mechanized equipment."

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