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Uller Uprising
H. Beam Piper
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Uller Uprising is the story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper’s best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny (a Bengal uprising in British-held India brought about when rumors were spread to native soldiers that cartridges being issued by the British were coated with animal fat. The rebellion quickly spread throughout India and led to the massacre of the British Colony at Cawnpore.). Piper’s novel is not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied to a similar situation in the far future.
Uller Uprising is the story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper’s best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny (a Bengal uprising in British-held India brought about when rumors were spread to native soldiers that cartridges being issued by the British were coated with animal fat. The rebellion quickly spread throughout India and led to the massacre of the British Colony at Cawnpore.). Piper’s novel is not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied to a similar situation in the far future.
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The aircar swung out over Konkrook Channel and headed toward the blue-gray Company buildings on Gongonk Island, and the Company airport, swarming with lorries and airboats, where the ten thousand-ton Oom Paul Kruger had just come in from Keegark, and the Company's one real warship, the cruiser Procyon, was lifting out for Grank, in the North. Down at the southern tip of the island, the three-thousand-foot globe of the spaceship City of Pretoria, from Niflheim, was loading with cargo for Terra.
"Just what happened, while you and Mr. Ferriera were in Keeluk's house. Miss Quinton?" Hideyoshi O'Leary asked, trying not to sound official. "Was Keeluk with you all the time? Or did he go out for a while, say fifteen or twenty minutes before you left?"
"Why, yes, he did." Paula Quinton looked surprised. "How did you guess it? You see, a dog started barking, behind the house, and he excused himself and...."
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Community Reviews
H. Beam Piper was one of the true unsung heroes of SF. who committed suicide in 1962 due to a lack of literary success.
This like most of his work deals more with philosophical issues and the fact that History endlessly repeating itself, the events in Uller Uprising following a similar pattern to the
It's kinda weird reading a futuristic sci-fi written in 1952. Hiroshima and A-Bombs fresh on the mind of the author still. The hero of the story General Carlos Von Schlichten, even wears an eye monocle.
An interesting take on the issues surrounding xenophobia.
This is the first novel set in Piper's future history Federation sequence. It's a good military sf adventure, with political overtones informed by history. There's been a lot of critical speculation as to whether Piper was endorsing, condemning, or merely reporting the effects of imperialism/colonia
A rather disturbing military/imperialist story by Piper for sure. First published in 1952, this has aged well, outside of a few mentions of slide rules and such. This is the first book set in the universe-- the Terra Federation-- that Piper used for several novels. 500 hundred years into the 'Atomic
Piper clearly has a thing about how native peoples are treated, which I was familiar with from Oomphel. This story was originally part of a set of novellas that were based on a seed idea written by Dr. Clark. He gave the writers two worlds to work with and they ran with it. Piper threw in the "Beng
Uller Uprising is a story about the military forces of a mining company on an extra-terrestrial planet using atomic bombs to put down a native rebellion. The story references are quite dated, perhaps understandably so since the novel was written not long after World War II. One of the main character
I'm kind of on the fence about this book. As a piece of military SF adventure from the Golden Age, it's pretty excellent and not nearly as clunky as many of Piper's contemporaries. Something about the whole story is a little off, though, and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not surprised to disco