Download or read book Retief written by Keith Laumer and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice Counsul Retief an ambassodor from the CDT, negotiates control of the Sirenian system, settles a conflict between settlers and natives, and solves a labor shortage on the planet Lovenbroy
Download or read book Retief Envoy to New Worlds written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie myriad confidential accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar crises that were bound to occur when human meets non-human. The adventures of CDC (Corps Diplomatique Terra) diplomat Jame Retief loom large in six highly classified missions where brain and brawn save land and lives despite red-tape bound superiors amid conspiracy and conflct across alien planets - guaranteed astounding, amazing, startling, galactic, weird, and thrillingly wonderful.
Download or read book Envoy to New Worlds written by Keith Laumer and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie a myriad "confidential" accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar crises that were bound to occur when human meets non-human. The adventures of the interplanetary diplomat Retief loom large in those highly classified reports. They also loom large in the eyes of devoted science-fiction readers because the cosmic tight-rope diplomacy of Retief compose a body of science-fiction adventure guaranteed to be astounding, amazing, startling, galactic, weird, and thrillingly wonderful. ENVOY TO NEW WORLDS was the first book to present Retief's adventures to the s-f public.
Download or read book Three By Laumer written by Keith Laumer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the worlds of Keith Laumer. From the adventures of self-aware superheavy battle tanks to the intricacies of galactic diplomacy via the clash of parallel worlds, Laumer's imagination knew few bounds. In Worlds of the Imperium, an American diplomat finds himself kidnapped by agents of the British Empire, which rules over a parallel world. James Retief travels the stars, resolving conflicts and avoiding cultural clashes, while battling the endless bureaucracy of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne in Retief: Envoy to New Worlds. In Bolo, Laumer explores what happens when mankind's most advanced weapons of war become self aware. These are the opening volumes to three classic series, collected in one exciting, thrill-a-minute omnibus.
Download or read book Dinosaur Beach written by Keith Laumer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing from the remote future, Nexx Central agent Ravel is emplaced in America, circa 1936. His mission: to undo successive tamperings of the time stream which threaten the survival of Mankind. He falls in love with a lovely, simple girl, Lisa, but in the midst of his happiness is called away to Dinosaur Beach. Dinosaur Beach is a Nexx Central station located millions of years in the past, in the Jurassic Age. But shortly after Ravel's arrival, the station is attacked and destroyed, and Ravel begins a terrifying odyssey through time. For the attackers were another time-tampering team from still a different future era. And Ravel himself is not only in growing danger but the human world as we know it...
Download or read book The Earth Quarter and Envoy to New Worlds written by Damon Knight and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, "Earth Quarter," written by Damon Knight, is an exciting look at the dark side of human nature. When it came down to it, death and hardship were no obstacle to the people of the Quarter. Obviously, patriotism has a price... The second novel, "Envoy to New Worlds," features six short stories featuring author Keith Laumer's famed sci-fi diplomat, Retief. Contained here are several accounts of Retief's contributions to the peace of the universe-written in the hope that the injustices committed by the history books will thus be rectified.
Download or read book Envoy to New Worlds written by Keith Laumer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retief written by Keith Laumer and published by Baen. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel and collection of stories have previously appeared in parts in "Envoy to New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, " and "Retief's War." Exploring the origins of the Corps Diplomatique, the background of Retief is told for the first time.
Download or read book Post Colonial and African American Women s Writing written by Gina Wisker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.
Download or read book Uller Uprising written by H. Beam Piper and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uller is a corporate world where the natives (silicon humanoids with four arms and a face like a lizard) are ruled by Terro-Human Company. Natives, who outnumber humans, but aren't as advanced, have had it up with the imperialist Company and start a rebellion which will see many dead on both sides.
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 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 World Shuffler written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'TWAS BORING IN ARTESIA ...or so thought Sir Lafayette O'Leary, ex-craftsman from Earth, and now seemingly ex-interdimensional swashbuckler extraordinaire as well. His battles were all won, his dragons all slain and life was just the same boring round of riches, royal hunts and regatas. Boring, boring, boring; until he walked past the azalia... Suddenly Artesia was gone, and O'Leary was trapped in Melange, a world of giants and pirates, karate-chopping hags and electronic flying carpets, a world where goons and harlots are the spitting images (literally!) of his own aristocratic Artesian associates. And because they think he's his double, lots of his new friends want O'Leary dead. Unless he can get through the interdimensional gate and find the continuum path back home, O'Leary's life will never be boring again. Just short.
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 Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
Download or read book The Galaxy Builder written by Keith Laumer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world, as Lafayette O'Leary knew it, disappeared in a flash. Perhaps it was his own doing - after all, he had the uncanny gift of creating alternate realities by sheer mental power. But the result was a nightmare gone out of control. All O'Leary wanted was to find his wife and return to the familiar world of Artesia. Yet no sooner did he manage to extricate himself from one bizarre situation than he was thrust into another, equally threatening... There was only one thing to do: he had to penetrate the very center of power from which his destiny was being controlled and - take it into his own hands!
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...
