Keith Laumer Books In Order

Worlds of the Imperium

When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth’s history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this, Brion was given a puzzling assignment by his captors. He was to secretly enter a palace, and kill a dangerous and tyrannical dictator. There was one, small catch the hated dictator in this world was the mirror image of Brion Bayard. For on an Alternate Earth, Brion’s is his own worst enemy!

Gambler’s World

ON THE ZOOP TOWER It was a rigged gambling game, but Retief had to play it. Retief was First Secretary and Consul to the Mission to the planet Petreac under Ambassador Crodfoller. The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne were there to help the Nenni Caste and their Potentate to deal with their rival planet Rotune. But Retief has discovered an underground movement called The People’s Anti Fascist Freedom League headed by a fellow named Zorn. And unless Retief and his colleague Magnan get to the bottom of Zorn’s gambling operation and play their own games, a whole spaceship’s worth of diplomats would get their throats cut! A SHARP, ROLLICKING SCIENCE FICTION TALE OF COMEDY, ACTION AND SURPRISE

The Yillian Way

Once again it is up to Jamie Retief to save another diplomatic mission. Terra has recently signed a treaty with the planet Petreac. But revolution threatens and the Terrans must save the Nenni cast or their mission will end in abject failure.

A Trace of Memory

Armchair fiction presents the best in classic science fiction novels. A Trace of Memory takes you all the way from Stonehenge to outer space. When a man named Legion signed on as a soldier of fortune he did not expect to wind up as the master of a private island. Nor did he expect to cower in the ancient Druid pits nor fight for his life in the great hall at Okk Hamiloth, on a planet many galaxies away. The author, Keith Laumer was one of the science fiction world’s master storytellers. Here he sweeps you through the far reaches of time and the vastness of outer space in this novel of retribution.

Earthblood

Two complete novels of interstellar adventure: ‘Earthblood‘ by Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown chronicles one man’s struggle to find his destiny in a future where the very existence of Earth is a legend that few believe. Humanity was defeated by the hostile Niss millennia ago and humanity had scattered across the galaxy. Roan had been raised by aliens, but he knew that he was human and nothing was going to stop him from finding his lost homeworld, not even the space fleets of the Niss.’Sibyl Sue Blue’ by Rosel George Brown is the story of cigar smoking Sergeant Sibyl Sue Blue, one of the toughest cops that the criminals on a future Earth hope never to meet. But she’s not after burglars, muggers or drug pushers now. Her husband has disappeared on a mission to the planet Radix and she’s going to get him back, one way, or another, and any unfriendly aliens had better get out of her way, if they know what’s good for them. Plus, for the first time in one volume, all of Keith Laumer’s other stories of the alien Niss, as well as a generous assortment of stories by Rosel George Brown, who was a master of pointedly humorous adventure. Science fiction adventure, ranging from the grim to the wildly comical in a generous volume by two masters of the form.

Greylorn

DESPERATE MISSION TO THE STARS Earth is doomed. A scourge called the Red Tide is devouring the planet. The only hope of the dying population is to find a lost colony in the stars. However the starship Galahad sent to find that colony has a problem. Mutiny! Commander Greylorn must bravely deal with a discouraged crew…
And then even a bigger problem. Dreadful aliens called the Mancji living in a high G environment who seem to have developed a taste for human flesh. Keith Laumer hit the spaceways running in this, his first of many tales of science fiction action and adventure.

The Lighter Side

Tapping the vein in the screwball comedy genius of Keith Laumer, the most popular science fiction writer and creator of the Retief series, this volume contains two complete novels of hapless heroes caught in out of kilter spacetime clockwork. May

A Plague of Demons and Other Stories

A complete novel of science fiction adventure and a host of short novels in one large volume. A Plague of Demons: One man found out the secret behind the aliens who controlled the world, harvesting ‘dead’ soldiers to fight wars on distant worlds and only he could stop them, if he could keep from getting harvested himself. Thunderhead: An officer has manned an outpost on a lonely planet for years, watching for the alien enemy that may never come, forgotten by the bureaucracy which sent him there and then the enemy came! Test to Destruction: Aliens are testing a human prisoner to determine how serious a foe the human race might be and they have chosen the wrong man to Test to Destruction. And much more.

Legions of Space

Two complete novels, and a host of novelettes fill a large volume by the master of science fiction adventure. In the first novel, A Trace of Memory, a drifter named Legion is hired by a millionaire who claims to be centuries old, but has nearly complete amnesia, only to remember that something is hunting for him. Legion gets more than he bargained for when he finds himself and his employer on a prehistoric starship hurtling into the unknown. In planet run, Laumer joins forces with SF legend Gordon R. Dickson in a novel of two ancient heroes who are going to risk their lives for a chance to solve the mystery of the last unexplored planet in the sector of the galaxy. Plus four short novels of exciting interstellar action and adventure. With an introduction by Joel Rosenberg, author of the best selling ‘Guardians of the Flame’ series

The Long Twilight: and Other Stories

A huge volume of edge-of-the-seat science fiction adventure, including:

* The Long Twilight: Grayle and Falconer met in relentless combat with no quarter in prehistoric ages past, their endless battle now remembered only as dark myths and legends. Now their long battle is nearing its climax?and the final battleground is an uncontrolled experimental power plant that threatens the Earth itself!

* Night of Delusions: A detective is hired by men claiming to be government agents and given an assignment that may lead to his being hailed as the savior of the nation?or executed for treason. His mysterious clients also give him devices to use in the assignment, devices which seem to be far beyond anything human technology is capable of. And as he doggedly pursues the case, he finds that the very fabric of reality seems to be changing around him, even to the point that he himself seems never to have existed!

* Plus three short novels of equally stunning concepts and breathtaking action.

Earthblood: And Other Stories

Two complete novels of interstellar adventure: ‘Earthblood’ by Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown chronicles one man’s struggle to find his destiny in a future where the very existence of Earth is a legend that few believe. Humanity was defeated by the hostile Niss millennia ago and humanity had scattered across the galaxy. Roan had been raised by aliens, but he knew that he was human and nothing was going to stop him from finding his lost homeworld, not even the space fleets of the Niss.’Sibyl Sue Blue’ by Rosel George Brown is the story of cigar smoking Sergeant Sibyl Sue Blue, one of the toughest cops that the criminals on a future Earth hope never to meet. But she’s not after burglars, muggers or drug pushers now. Her husband has disappeared on a mission to the planet Radix and she’s going to get him back, one way, or another, and any unfriendly aliens had better get out of her way, if they know what’s good for them. Plus, for the first time in one volume, all of Keith Laumer’s other stories of the alien Niss, as well as a generous assortment of stories by Rosel George Brown, who was a master of pointedly humorous adventure. Science fiction adventure, ranging from the grim to the wildly comical in a generous volume by two masters of the form.

It Could Be Anything

THE WEIRD WORLD BEYOND Brett had to get out of Casperton. It was a small town, Casperton, and although Brett loved his Aunt Haicey and would miss the lovely Pretty Lee, his girl friend, he wanted to see the wide, wide world beyond. The ocean! The mountains! Big cities! Brett had only seen pictures of them before he got on the train that fateful day…
But then the train had stopped. Brett discovered there was no engine and the tracks ahead…
. stopped! He walked onward and found a city…
. but it was a city was full of ‘golems.’ A true human being Brett met, Dhuva was taken underground by the fearsome secret masters of the city the Gel. Brett had to save Dhuva and unlock the secret of this city…
and of ‘reality’ itself. AN ESSENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY A MASTER OF SF ACTION

Dangerous Vegetables

Do you ever worry about your vegetables eating you? Maybe you should. As those who doted on his ‘Retief’ stories know, Keith Laumer was a man who delighted in his own genuinely twisted sense of humor. Though he left us before he could complete this book, the publisher hopes that he, wherever he is, as well as the audience, like how this novel has been finished for him. Introduction by Ben Bova.