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Creator: H. Beam Piper  H. Beam Piper was an American SF writer,
best known for the series Paratime (which is about exploiting
The Multiverse for fun and profit); the Terrohuman Future
History, or TFH, which is about the human race spreading
throughout the stars, and the cultural rising and falling that
happens as a result; and Little Fuzzy, an arc within the TFH
series about the discovery of intelligent life on a settled
planet. He committed suicide in 1964 because of financial
problems. A check was literally in the mail.  Tropes found in
his works include:    • Alternate Universe (A bare minimum of
Once per Episode in Paratime.)     • His first published story,
"Time and Time Again" (1947), launched an alternate universe
when the dying main character's consciousness was flung thirty
years back in time to his then-thirteen-year-old body — and
decided to change history to prevent the World War Three in
which he'd been killed. His plans involved ha