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Keith Laumer Super Pack: Positronic Super Pack Series, cartea 44

Autor Keith Laumer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2020
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 diplomat in the Foreign Service shines through in many of these stories. One of science fiction's true luminaries. This is the largest collection of Laumer's work ever assembled in one binding. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs!

Included are:

Greylorn

Worlds of the Imperium

Doorstep

The King of the City

The Frozen Planet

Gambler's World

The Yillian Way

The Madman from Earth

Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain

A Trace of Memory

Aide Memoire

Cultural Exchange

The Desert and the Stars

Cocoon

It Could Be Anything

The Walls

Saline Solution

The Long Remembered Thunder

A Hoax in Time

End as a Hero

The Star-Sent Knaves

Mightiest Qorn

The Night of the Trolls

The Governor of Glave

Diplomat-at-Arms
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781515445104
ISBN-10: 1515445100
Pagini: 994
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 58 mm
Greutate: 1.58 kg
Editura: Positronic Publishing
Colecția Positronic Super Pack Series
Seria Positronic Super Pack Series


Notă biografică

Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was an American science fiction writer, military veteran, diplomat, and one of the distinctive voices of mid-twentieth-century adventure-oriented SF. Born John Keith Laumer in Syracuse, New York, he served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and later in the U.S. Air Force. He also worked in the diplomatic service, experiences that helped shape his fiction's recurring interest in command, bureaucracy, military systems, protocol, political maneuvering, and the absurdities of official power.Laumer began publishing science fiction in the 1950s and became known for stories and novels that combined speed, wit, action, and satirical bite. His best-known creations include the Retief stories, which mock diplomacy and institutional incompetence through sharp comic adventure, and the Bolo stories, centered on massive self-aware war machines and questions of loyalty, sacrifice, and martial honor. He also wrote novels such as A Plague of Demons, The Other Side of Time, The Great Time Machine Hoax, and many shorter works for science fiction magazines.His fiction often features capable individuals trapped inside dangerous systems, whether military, political, technological, or bureaucratic. Laumer could be funny, cynical, explosive, and surprisingly serious about courage, competence, and responsibility under pressure. Though his career was affected by serious health problems after a stroke in the early 1970s, his best work remains important to readers of classic science fiction, military SF, satirical SF, and the magazine tradition that shaped modern speculative adventure.