The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that "he established a name for lightly written tales whose backgrounds were unusually well conceived.

[2] Peirce began writing in 1974, with the sale of "Unlimited Warfare", a science fiction short story to Analog magazine.

[1] In 2017, The Motley Fool published a financial article describing how Peirce became a "dividend millionaire" by investing in high-dividend stocks over a 22-year period.

[3] Peirce wrote a number of science fiction and mystery novels, some of which were published by Tor Books, and the others by Wildside Press.

In the mystery field, he has had two collections about protagonists living in Tahiti, Commissaire Tama, a chief of police, and Joe Caneili, a private eye.