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Retief de Keith Laumer

Retief

Autor Keith Laumer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2024
Interstellar diplomacy meets all-out action in this explosive Retief adventure from Keith Laumer. When a volatile crisis threatens fragile galactic alliances, Jame Retief once again finds himself navigating treacherous political terrain-and, as usual, the situation demands far more than polite negotiation. In Retief: The Dirty Dozen, bureaucratic blunders and alien hostility collide, forcing Retief to assemble an unlikely team and take decisive action where official channels fail. Blending sharp satire with high-velocity space opera, Laumer skewers diplomatic pretension while delivering pulse-driven adventure. The Retief series remains a standout example of science fiction that balances humor, commentary, and sheer narrative momentum. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Included herein:The Frozen Planet Gambler's World The Yillian Way The Madman from Earth Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain Aide Memoire Cultural Exchange The Desert and the Stars Saline Solution Mightiest Qorn The Governor of Glave Diplomat-at-Arms
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ISBN-13: 9798880910625
Pagini: 56
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Sta

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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.