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Retief de Keith Laumer

Retief

Autor Keith Laumer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2024
Jame Retief is a diplomat; a soldier; a gentleman; a rouge, when necessary, a man of action, and a lightening fast thinker. He is the best the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne has to offer. Caught between the hide bound old guard of the Corps and new realities on the ground Retief often finds himself in awkward positions that only he can solve. History is presented to us in nice neat time-lines. But the making of history is anything but neat. People like Retief who actually make history are seldom recorded in the history books. These are the stories of the people who drive history. Collected here are a dozen of the very best Retif stories. Keith Laumer was a Hugo and World Fantasy Nominee science fiction officer. Laumer’s experience as an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service shines through in these stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries. 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: 9798880910632
Pagini: 48
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.15 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.