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Astronaut John Jackson is finally going to realize his life's dream: exploring a brand-new world.However, after spending a century in suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, he awakens to discover that he never left Earth.The world he left behind no longer exists. A world war has left the Earth in decimated shambles, inhabited by new barbarians and deadly sentient tanks.All seems lost, but this devastated world never had to deal w...

A diplomat is tasked with the assassination of a global dictator in this fast-paced novel, a tale of three parallel realities that includes the British Empire's mastery of interworld travel.

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Keith Laumer emerged as one of the modern masters of science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, creating such memoriable characters as Retief of the CDT and the Bolos. This massive 600-page collection assembles 21 of his great tales (including a complete novel), with stories in both of those series. Here are:THE FROZEN PLANET [Retief]GAMBLER'S WORLD [Retief]THE YILLIAN WAY [Retief]THE MADMAN FROM EARTH [Retief]RETIEF OF THE RED-TAPE MOUNTAIN [Ret...

A collection of Hugo and Nebula-nominated writer Keith Laumer's Retief novellas, as collected from Worlds of If Science Fiction and Fantastic magazines. The books are satirical science fiction written in the 1960s and based on Laumer's real-life experience in the U.S. Foreign Service

Retief had just one job on Northroyal-to save the galaxy from madness and war. So with a frayed cloak and an old horse and a packet in his saddlebags-not to mention blood, guts, and brains he set out.Keith Laumer was a Hugo and Nebula award nominee! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science ...

Retief had just one job on Northroyal-to save the galaxy from madness and war. So with a frayed cloak and an old horse and a packet in his saddlebags-not to mention blood, guts, and brains he set out.Keith Laumer was a Hugo and Nebula award nominee! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science ...

Jame Retief is a diplomat, a soldier, a gentleman, a rouge, when necessary, a man of action, and a lightening fast thinker. He is the best the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne has to offer. Caught between the hide bound old guard of the Corps and new realities on the ground Retief often finds himself in awkward positions that only he can solve. History is presented to us in nice neat time-lines. But the making of history is anything but neat. ...

Jame Retief is a diplomat, a soldier, a gentleman, a rouge, when necessary, a man of action, and a lightening fast thinker. He is the best the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne has to offer. Caught between the hide bound old guard of the Corps and new realities on the ground Retief often finds himself in awkward positions that only he can solve. History is presented to us in nice neat time-lines. But the making of history is anything but neat. ...

Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer. That's more than nine hundred pages of top notch adventure science fiction. This book is jammed packed with some of Laumer's best work including stories set in both the Retief and Bolo series. Laumer's experience as an officer in the United States Air Force and a d...

Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer. That's more than nine hundred pages of top notch adventure science fiction. This book is jammed packed with some of Laumer's best work including stories set in both the Retief and Bolo series. Laumer's experience as an officer in the United States Air Force and a d...

In Night of the Trolls Keith Laumer introduces us to one of his most popular inventions The Bolo. These are Super Tanks capable of defending or destroying mankind. Jackson a volunteer in an experiment with suspended animations awakens to discover 80 years have gone by and the world has fallen apart. With a the help of a bolo it is up to him to bring mankind back.

In Night of the Trolls Keith Laumer introduces us to one of his most popular inventions The Bolo. These are Super Tanks capable of defending or destroying mankind. Jackson a volunteer in an experiment with suspended animations awakens to discover 80 years have gone by and the world has fallen apart. With a the help of a bolo it is up to him to bring mankind back.

When Legion signed on as a soldier he did not expect to expect to wind up as the master of a private island. Nor did he expect to cower in ancient Druid pits . . . nor fight for his life in the great hall at Okk-Hamiloth, on a planet galaxies away. A Trace of Memory is a mind blowing non-stop adventure story that you'll be thinking about long after you finish reading it.Keith Laumer was a best selling author who was nominated for both the Hugo...

When Legion signed on as a soldier he did not expect to expect to wind up as the master of a private island. Nor did he expect to cower in ancient Druid pits . . . nor fight for his life in the great hall at Okk-Hamiloth, on a planet galaxies away. A Trace of Memory is a mind blowing non-stop adventure story that you'll be thinking about long after you finish reading it.Keith Laumer was a best selling author who was nominated for both the Hugo...

Chester W. Chester the IV has recently inherited his uncle's rambling old mansion along with three million dollars in IRS debts associated with the property. An inspection of the mansion turns up only a wine seller and a huge, secret, underground, super computer that Chester's uncle was developing at the time of his death. After drinking liberally from the wine cellar, Chester and his friend Case Mulvihill hatch an impossible plan to hoodwink ...

Chester W. Chester the IV has recently inherited his uncle's rambling old mansion along with three million dollars in IRS debts associated with the property. An inspection of the mansion turns up only a wine seller and a huge, secret, underground, super computer that Chester's uncle was developing at the time of his death. After drinking liberally from the wine cellar, Chester and his friend Case Mulvihill hatch an impossible plan to hoodwink ...

American Diplomat, Brion Bayard, is on assignment in Stockholm, Sweden, when he is kidnaped by agents of The Imperium who are from a parallel world. A world where the American revolution never happened and the British Empire, which includes America and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires of Europe rule the world. Bayard learns that he was abducted because the Imperium is under attack from another parallel world. A parallel world ruled by a...

American Diplomat, Brion Bayard, is on assignment in Stockholm, Sweden, when he is kidnaped by agents of The Imperium who are from a parallel world. A world where the American revolution never happened and the British Empire, which includes America and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires of Europe rule the world. Bayard learns that he was abducted because the Imperium is under attack from another parallel world. A parallel world ruled by a...

The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV Model M, which performed remarkably well.However, the always-present possibility of capture and use of a Bolo by an enemy was a constant source of anxiety to military leaders and, in time, gave rise to the next and fi­nal major advance in Bolo technology: the self-directing and self-aware Mark XX Model B Bolo, Tremendous.But what happe...