Download or read book Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude written by Keith Laumer and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retief must use all of his diplomatic skills when he chaperones Earth's entrant to a pangalactic beauty pageant on the planet Boondock, where beauty is in the eye--or eyes--of the beholder

Download or read book Retief and the Rascals written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 violence between rival gangs.

Download or read book Retief and the Warlords written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the galaxies, against wrongdoers and rogues! Only Retief - the indomitable champion of the underdog and 27th-century diplomacy - can seal the peace between the battling earthlings and the lobster-like aliens known as the Haterakans. In constant peril, the daring spacewarrior must join a pirate band, cross the fatal boundaries of the Terran Defense League, and take on his arch rivals Foulbrood and Bloodblister. Facing certain torture, double-dealing, and ruthless espionage, he passes within inches of death. But he must emerge victorious - or the Hatracks will waste no time in executing their berserk plan to raise earthlings as a food supply!

Download or read book Retief in the Ruins written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 races clash on the planet Popu-Ri, once the home of a mighty interstellar power. Popu-Ri has sunk into decline...but its ancient treasures remain. Though not for long, if the Groaci have their way. Groaci also finds Popu-Ri just the place to build a galactic warfleet. Still, for the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne to respond would threaten the delicate balance of human/Groaci forces on the cocktail circuit. Therefore the ambassador must keep the lid on by doing nothing. But how to do nothing without seeming an inneffectual pantywaist? Send an observer! Yep, the Ambassador has it all figured out. But he made one little mistake; he sent Retief...

Download or read book Retief Ambassador to Space Seven Incidents of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 him from being stomped, mangled, or eaten. Things are tough on other planets, too, with a civil war on Skweem, a dying race om Sulinore, and mudstorms on Schweinhund's World. These seven stories show the Galaxy's hippest diplomat at his unexpected and jaunty best.

Download or read book Retief s Ransom written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 inspired by a lust for mayhem. But even the most undesirable chunk of galactic real estate attracts its quota of rival overlords, and the fiendish Groaci had a scheme for absorbing Lumbaga into their sphere of influence. It was working well, too, until it involved Retief, Terran diplomat extraordinary. To his powerful intellect, the machinations of the Groaci were child's play...

Download or read book The Return of Retief written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 plans took no account of human territory. The farmers and miners of Tip Space were helpless against the Ree invasion. Still the Terran diplomats dithered, holding back the Navy, hoping for a truce. Retief, already on probation for undiplomatic behaviour, earned himself the assignment parleying with the Ree when he urged force against them. A suicide mission? Perhaps...but Retief is Retief.

Download or read book Retief Emissary to the Stars written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE TERRESTRIENNE HAS NEVER SEEN HIS LIKE... Retief - the most diplomatic diplomat of the 27th century. His mission: to gain control of the most desirable planet in the universe - without triggering intergalactic war. He tries talking ... but how does anyone - even Retief - negotiate with an uninhabited planet? He tries a dice game ... but how does gambling help the solar peace organization prevent the malevolent Basurans (who've eaten their own planet) from turning to Terra's prize colony for an after-dinner snack? The problems Retief faces are just beginning, but as insurmountable as they seem, the indomitable adventurer prevails - and keeps the state of the universe on an even keel!

Download or read book Retief s War written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 limbs and sprouting steel-sharp talons. Plans are afoot to place these singular beings under a single government friendly to Earth. But Jame Retief, officer of the distinguished Corps Diplomatique Teresstienne, a supra-national organization devoted to keeping the peace, has discovered that evil forces are undermining the whole scheme. Deviously sincere, uncompromisingly venal, fearlessly cowardly, Retief goes to work against mounting planetary intrigue and more than once brings those around him to the brink of nervous collapse.

Download or read book The Star Treasure written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 out of the United Planetary Navy? Could it have been something to do with the innocent-looking chunk of rock dug from an asteroid by Tarleton's best friend - a discovery which caused him to be brutally killed? The Navy was helpless, under the orders of a greater power. Yet even the Star Lords had a weakness. If Tarleton could discover that secret, he and the populace of the beleaguered world might find freedom once again.

Download or read book The Stars Must Wait written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakened from suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, John Jackson is shocked to discover that the ship never left Earth - and that he has slept a century after a world war. Facing a nightmare wilderness inhabited by neo-barbarians and sentient tanks, Jackson is the only man who can bring the world to its senses.

Download or read book The Other Side of Time written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND - A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS... Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Hagroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines. He found himself running from the Hagroon into the arms of Dzok, the educated monkey man of Xonijeel; transported by Dzok to a universe where Napoleon the Fifth was in power and left there to the tender powers of the beautiful witch Olivia; struggling with the bonds of a fictitious past, always striving to regain his lost universe of Zero-zero Stockholm so he could bring the warning which might save his world from sudden, violent death...

Download or read book Night of Delusions written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, an reality will never be the same. From now on he's a Knight of Delusions.

Download or read book Back to the Time Trap written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 real cavemen. A pioneer hitches up his covered wagon on the Oregon Trail - and winds up in a modern shopping mall. And Roger Tyson, who thought the space-time continuum had finally settled down to normal, is flung helplessly from the distant past to the far future, and back again. Superbeings from the end of time are struggling for control of the universe with aliens from another galaxy. And if a few random humans get caught in one of their time gates, they don't much care. So Roger and his friends find themselves facing everyone from the cast of the original Mutiny on the Bounty to real pirates of the Spanish Main in a wild quest to their own time and bring everything back to insanity as usual...

Download or read book Galactic Diplomat written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 state of tension short of armed conflict. Retief is not exactly in the mainstream of current Galactic diplomacy, as expounded by such giants of the C.D.T. as Crodfoller, Hidebinder, Straphanger, and his own immediate superior, Magnan. Deviously sincere, uncompromisingly venal, fearlessly cowardly, these great, dedicated public servants will seem curiously familiar as they strive to keep the peace seven hundred years in the future. But when Retief's on the scene things have a way of coming right in the end... Contents: Ultimatum Saline Solution The Brass God The Castle of Light Wicker Wonderland Native Intelligence The Prince and the Pirate Courier Protest Note

Download or read book The Time Bender written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 self-hypnosis wrenches him out of the dull (but safe) Mrs. MacGlint's Clean Rooms and Board and deposits him in the feudal, bedragoned world of Artesia, it takes him a little while to catch on, even with the attentions of the beautiful Princess Adoranne. Then he decides that he likes this new life of his - except for the part where he's supposed to get killed...

Download or read book The Ultimax Man written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 being anywhere. You will be as expert at clipping flints as at architectural drawing. You will be able to juggle, walk a tightrope and add the numerals on the sides of passing freight cars as fast as any idiot savant. You'll absorb all the information in all the books - the human race's entire heritage of knowledge..." This was only the beginning of the experiment that was to turn a petty thief into the mos brilliant and powerful man ever to hold the earth in thrall. This was only the first step on the path of conquest mapped out for - THE ULTIMAX MAN.