Keith Laumer
By the Author
The House in November
Invasion! At first the U.S. army - what was left of it - thought it was battling a communist invasion. The truth was much worse.…
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Catastrophe Planet
The Earth was in shambles after the final quake had leveled the cities. For Mal Irish the last hold on reality was the embossed gold…
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Galactic Diplomat
Retief is an officer of the distinguished Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, a supra-national organization devoted to keeping the peace - or more accurately, to maintaining a…
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End as a Hero
Mankind was at war with the hideous Gool...and losing. Then, beyond Ganymead, one man fought the searing brain probe of an alien spy...and won. He…
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Star Colony
Coming in fast and low, the huge ship made planetfall. Three years out from Terra, the colony ship Omega had reached her destination, and the…
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Night of Delusions
It starts out as a weird but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him "escape" as a sort…
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The Infinite Cage
When he awakens in a skid row alley, Adam knows nothing. Not who he is, nor where he's from. Money is a mystery. So are…
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The Great Time Machine Hoax
Chester W. Chester IV inherits a run-down mansion and millions in back taxes. In order to pay the taxes, he initially decides to auction off…
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A Trace of Memory
Nightmare at Stonehenge When Legion meets a strange old millionaire called 'Foster', he doesn't know that his whole life will never be the same again.…
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Back to the Time Trap
A Wall Street trader leaves the bulls and bears - and comes face-to-face with hungrier dinosaurs. A Roaring '20s gangster gets roughed up - by…
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Time Trap
ABE LINCOLN IN AFRICA? He was seen - and photographed - in a Tunisian bazaar. And an ancient Spanish galleon, fully crewed with ancient Spaniard,…
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The Stars Must Wait
Awakened from suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, John Jackson is shocked to discover that the ship never left Earth - and that he has…
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Rogue Bolo
From "An Abbreviated History of the Bolo": The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV…
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The Galaxy Builder
The world, as Lafayette O'Leary knew it, disappeared in a flash. Perhaps it was his own doing - after all, he had the uncanny gift…
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The Shape Changer
Lafayette O'Leary, to his acute discomfiture, has an exhilarating and terrifying tendency to slip continua. And what might that mean? It might mean finding oneself…
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The Time Bender
Draftsmen can't fight dragons. Then again, that's usually no problem - they generally don't have to. But Lafayette O'Leary does. When an accidental overdose of…
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Retief in the Ruins
It's a rare day when Terrans meet eye-to-eyestalk with the slimy little sticky-fingers - er, that is to say, the noble alien Groaci. This time…
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The Return of Retief
PLANET AFTER PLANE FELL TO THE REE A vast and powerful race, the Ree needed breeding room for an ever-increasing population - and their expansion…
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Retief to the Rescue
Retief returns - to make the galaxy safe for diplomacy! The diplomat extraordinaire faces his ultimate challenge on the embattled planet Furtheron - to keep…
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Retief: Emissary to the Stars
THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE TERRESTRIENNE HAS NEVER SEEN HIS LIKE... Retief - the most diplomatic diplomat of the 27th century. His mission: to gain control of…
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Retief of the CDT
Against a raging backdrop of interplanetary intrigue. This time the resourceful officer of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne must deal with horrors unknown as he hunts…
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Retief's War
The twenty-seventh century planet of Quopp is a world where Earthmen walk cautiously or not at all. The inhabitants are weirdly diabolical creatures, possessing spoked-wheel…
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Worlds of the Imperium
An American diplomat, trapped in a world he never made... At first Brion Bayard was relieved to discover that his kidnappers were very apologetic and…
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Judson's Eden
When Marl Judson, fleeing a rapacious government that wanted not just his fabulous wealth but his life, crash-landed on a uninhabited planet, he thought he…
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The Ultimax Man
"In the next few days you will master the rules and techniques for every activity, skill, talent, sport and art ever mastered by any human…
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The Glory Game
As the Hukk maneuver on the fringes of Terran Space, the Terran Navy is about to begin the most important "game" in the history of…
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The Star Treasure
HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MURDER It was a set-up ... but who was behind it, and why did they want Ban Tarleton…
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Dinosaur Beach
Appearing from the remote future, Nexx Central agent Ravel is emplaced in America, circa 1936. His mission: to undo successive tamperings of the time stream…
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The Long Twilight
THE COMBATANTS Two godlike blood enemies engaged in a war older than history. THE BATTLEGROUND An out-of-control nuclear plant whose cataclysmic destruction will spell the…
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Galactic Odyssey
Billy Danger had gone past hitting the skids - now he was freezing to death in a blizzard. So he took shelter in a corn…
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The Monitors
Even after the set had been turned off, the TV blared the announcement: "Citizens of Earth, I am Tersh Jetterax. It is my pleasure to…
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A Plague of Demons
THE DEMONS HAD TO STOP JOHN BRAVAIS His secret assignment was simply - to save mankind from the savage dog-like 'things' that used their hands…
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Bolo
Unrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaced man in that most human of endeavors: war. In these…
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The World Shuffler
'TWAS BORING IN ARTESIA ...or so thought Sir Lafayette O'Leary, ex-craftsman from Earth, and now seemingly ex-interdimensional swashbuckler extraordinaire as well. His battles were all…
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Retief and the Rascals
Terran diplomat and interplanetary troubleshooter Jame Retief must stop the belligerent, five-eyed Groaci from invading the beleaguered planet of Bloor, which is already plagued by…
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Reward for Retief
Retief's latest assignment is on Zany-Doo, a wild, undeveloped planet whose residents have a marked dislike for Terrans. The caterpilleroid natives seem to have something…
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Retief's Ransom
Lumbaga is a planet without known virtues - but with some decidedly odd natives. For every Lumbagan is simply an arbitrary assortment of semi-independent organs…
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Retief: Ambassador to Space: Seven Incidents of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne
How are thing on Rockamorra? Bad, very. Earth Ambassador Pinchbottle has contracted to fight a dinosaur, and it's up to troubleshooter Jame Retief to keep…
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Retief and the Warlords
Across the galaxies, against wrongdoers and rogues! Only Retief - the indomitable champion of the underdog and 27th-century diplomacy - can seal the peace between…
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Retief: Envoy to New Worlds
Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie myriad confidential accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar…
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Zone Yellow
Brion Bayard, once of our own timeline and now Imperium Agent extraordinaire, had been on some pretty dangerous missions before - but never had he…
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Assignment in Nowhere
THE COMING OF THE BLIGHT It seemed as though the world was eroding right under everyone's feet. Stories disappeared from magazines; the baron's silver coat…
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The Other Side of Time
BLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND - A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS... Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke…