Graveyard of Dreams
by H. Beam Piper
The Terra Man series continues when the Federation begins to collapse. How do you regulate the colonization of a planet whose inhabitants talk meaninglessly but still communicate in a way that people cannot begin to understand? How can you discipline a working class that makes sure its managers are in control of its products and knows that the end of the world is near? And what happens when a planet dependent on the recovery of abandoned equipment runs out of things that need to be destroyed? With H. Bim Piper, Naudsonse, Oompel in the Sky, and the novel-length Cemetery of Dreams, it takes the complex future human history between the stars in a new direction.