In a desperate future Earth, the Red Tide is devouring the planet, and Lieutenant Commander Greylorn makes a daring case before the World Secretary's council: humanity's last hope may lie not in a doomed defense, but in a search for the lost Omega Colony. Thanks to new propulsion advances, a mission once thought impossible could now reach the colony in five years, and Greylorn argues that the distant settlement may have grown strong enough to aid its parent world. The council approves the ...

Peter Granthan wakes in a damaged lifeboat, badly burned and half-dead, after a mission against the mysterious enemy known as the Gool goes catastrophically wrong. He may be the first human to survive direct contact with them, but that makes him no safer: Earth's authorities suspect he has been mentally compromised, and Colonel Ausar Kayle orders him held in parking orbit rather than allowed home. Cut off, injured, and condemned by his own side, Granthan turns inward, using psychodynamic t...

Sharp-tongued Terrestrial diplomat Retief is sent to the long-lived world of Fust, where Ambassador Magnan wants him to publicly sponsor a harmless-sounding youth group called SCARS. Retief's instincts tell him otherwise, and when he follows the trail from pompous ceremonies to the shipyards, he finds a society seething with resentment, age politics, and hidden agendas. The supposed passenger liner under construction turns out to be based on an old battle cruiser design, and the Groaci Emb...

On the desert world of Adobe, Vice-Consul J. J. Retief is sent into a simmering border crisis with nothing but a sealed order and an exasperated superior who wants diplomacy without leaving the office. Human settlers and the native Flap-jacks are already trading fire over precious oasis farms, and the official plan is as unrealistic as it is tidy. Retief's arrival is anything but routine: he survives a guided warhead, a crash landing, and hostile fire before being mistaken for an enemy and...

Keith Laumer emerged as one of the modern masters of science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, creating such memoriable characters as Retief of the CDT and the Bolos. This collection assembles 21 of his great tales, including stories in both of those series (and one complete novel). Here are:INTRODUCTION: KEITH LAUMERTHE FROZEN PLANET [Retief]GAMBLER’S WORLD [Retief]THE YILLIAN WAY [Retief]THE MADMAN FROM EARTH [Retief]RETIEF OF THE RED-TAPE MOUNTAI...

Retief had just one job on Northroyal—to save the galaxy from madness and war. So with a frayed cloak and an old horse and a packet in his saddlebags—not to mention blood, guts, and brains he set out. Keith Laumer was a Hugo and Nebula award nominee! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries.

Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer. That’s more than 900 pages of top-notch adventure science fiction. This book is jam-packed with some of Laumer’s best work, including stories set in both the Retief and Bolo series. Laumer’s experience as an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign ...

Coming in fast and low, the huge ship made planetfall. Three years out from Terra, the colony ship Omega had reached her destination, and the crew began to off-load the cargo and passengers.Then the ship vanished.Against the vast panorama of an unexplored universe, Keith Laumer sets this first volume of the history of the world called Colmar - mankind's first venture among the stars.

As the Hukk maneuver on the fringes of Terran Space, the Terran Navy is about to begin the most important "game" in the history of the human race. For too many years the Hukk have been pushing, pushing at humanity's frontiers, testing our strength and our courage - and finding both wanting. Now the Terran Hardliners have had enough. They will use the coming war games to start a real war, even if it requires a revolution at home to clear the way!

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 Napoleo...

The Complete Works of Keith LaumerThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - A Bad Day for Vermin2 - End as a Hero3 - Doorstep4 - A Trace of Memory5 - The King of the City6 - The Long Remembered Thunder7 - The Star-Sent Knaves8 - The Night of the Trolls9 - The Frozen Planet10 - The Madman From Earth11 - Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain12 - Aide Memoire...

For Brion Bayard, the discovery of an alternate world to Earth where history took a different turn in the road was not a pleasant experience. His kidnapping brought him some startling revelations. Here was a world in which appeared identical doubles of famous personages—including a dangerous and hated dictator named Brion Bayard!His assignment seemed simple enough. Dressed as his double, Brion was to enter the enemy stronghold, kill the dictator, and take his place until law and or...