MY REVIEW OF "THE ULLER UPRISING" BY H.BEAM PIPER

H. Beam Piper was a minor American SF writer, best known for his tales of small, charming humanoid aliens known as "Fuzzies". His earlier work, however, was militaristic:

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Martyn Vaughan's review of Uller Uprising

1/5: There are some books that are bad because they are badly written; some are bad because of the ideas expressed therein. The Uller Uprising manages to be both. It starts off seemingly well with a discussion about alternative biochemistries, until you notice this part was not written by Piper himself but by a chemist. The actual novel is about Terrestrial colonists putting down a rebellion by the native inhabitants of an exoplanet. It has the usual 1950s SF cliches e.g. there were 2 atomic wars after WWII which have left Earth's northern hemisphere uninhabitable. However, the southerners, inst...