Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper

Sometimes you must look to the past, to see the future… Inspired by the writings of one of Science Fiction’s master writers, H. Beam Piper, Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper, is a collection of new rules and ideas ready to be dropped into your Thousand Suns games! Included with the new rules and equipment are four of Piper’s classic short stories which are your introduction to some of the writings that influenced the development of Thousand Suns. More than new rules and ideas, Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper, include the complete texts of four of Piper’s classic short stories.

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…The last enemy was the toughest of all–and defeating him was almost as dangerous as not doing so. For a strange pattern of beliefs can make assassination an honorable profession …

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…Bishop Berkeley’s famous question about the sound of a tree falling in the forest may have no standing in Science, but there remains an intriguing question about “sound” that Science needs to consider….

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…To translate writings, you need a key to the code–and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer from Earth was born … how could the Martian be translated?…

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…Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it–and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!…

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Coming March 2009
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