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Uller Uprising

by Piper H. Beam

Science Fiction & Fantasy » Science Fiction

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Based on true historic evens, a novel of H. Beam Piper, relates a fabulous story of a conflict between a human overlord and alien servants. The "Bengal uprising against English-held India", as stated in an introductory essay about Piper's work by John F. Carr, served a basis for the events, Piper described in “Uller Uprising”. Analyzing historical event applied to a similar situation in the far future, the author exposes theme of heroism and bravery in the face of grave danger. An entertaining and thoughtful read of alien worlds, courage, smart and love.

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...being burnednow than formerly; the Uller Company had been bringing in greatquantities of synthetic thermoconcentrate-fuel, and had been settingup nuclear furnaces and nuclear-electric power-plants, wherever theygained a foothold on the planet. Beyond the forests came the farmlands. Around the older estates, thickwalls of flint and petrified wood had been built, and wide moats dug, to keep out the shellosaurs. But now the moats were dry, and the wallsfalling into disrepair. Some of the newer farms, land devoted toagriculture with the declining demand for charcoal, had neither moatsnor walls. That was the Company, too; the huge shell-armored beastshad become virtually extinct in the Konk Isthmus now, since theintroduction of bazookas and recoilless rifles. There seemed to bequite a bit of power-equipment working in the fields, and bigcontragravity lorries were drifting back and forth, scatteringfertilizer, mainly nitrates from Mimir or Yggdrasill. There were stilla good number of...