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Keith Laumer

Lifespan
1925 – 1993
Nationality
American
Active
1959 – 1964
Works held
23

Keith Laumer (1925–1993) drew on his own foreign-service career for the Retief stories, in which a two-fisted galactic diplomat repeatedly saves a bumbling Corps from itself, comic, cynical and quietly pointed. His Bolo stories, about vast sentient war machines, went the other way into elegy and honour. A former Air Force officer and diplomat, he wrote with a distinctive blend of action, satire and craft.

The works

  1. 1964
    Cover of A Bad Day for Vermin A Bad Day for Vermin
  2. 1963
    Cover of A Trace of Memory A Trace of Memory Cover of End as a Hero End as a Hero Cover of It Could Be Anything It Could Be Anything Cover of Mightiest Qorn Mightiest Qorn Cover of Saline Solution Saline Solution Cover of The Governor of Glave The Governor of Glave Cover of The Long Remembered Thunder The Long Remembered Thunder Cover of The Night of the Trolls The Night of the Trolls Cover of The Star-Sent Knaves The Star-Sent Knaves Cover of The walls The walls
  3. 1962
    Cover of A trace of memory A trace of memory Cover of Aide Memoire Aide Memoire Cover of Cultural Exchange Cultural Exchange Cover of Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain Cover of The Madman From Earth The Madman From Earth Cover of The Yillian Way The Yillian Way Cover of Worlds of the Imperium Worlds of the Imperium
  4. 1961
    Cover of Doorstep Doorstep Cover of Gambler's World Gambler's World Cover of The Frozen Planet The Frozen Planet Cover of The King of the City The King of the City
  5. 1959
    Cover of Greylorn Greylorn

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaFirst ContactSocial SFMilitary SFPost-ApocalypticDystopiaArtificial IntelligencePsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Jim HarmonRandall GarrettBryce WaltonFritz LeiberGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterNelson S. Bond

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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