Keith Laumer
By the Author
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Enter the worlds of Keith Laumer. From the adventures of self-aware superheavy battle tanks to the intricacies of galactic diplomacy via the clash of parallel…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…