Junkyard Planet

The Cosmic Computer, the later name of Junkyard Planet, is the fourth work I've read recently by H. Beam Piper. I started with a short story, The Return, which was very good. Then I read Little Fuzzy, also very good. Uller Uprising and this one, The Cosmic Computer, were both disappointing, compared to the first two. So Piper is a mixed bag. Theodore Sturgeon was right when he said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crap. That's because 90% of everything is crap."