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Retief de Keith Laumer

Retief

Autor Keith Laumer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2020
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 fiction's true luminaries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781515445197
ISBN-10: 1515445194
Pagini: 56
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Positronic Publishing

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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.