Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671656355
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
Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473215544
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.
Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Damon Knight
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Human behavior
ISBN : 9781612870380
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.
Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2021-06-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781647202255
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.
Author : J. Weldes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1403982082
This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810849389
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.
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0941028755
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Robert Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 1434478572
This bio-bibliography of the golden age of the science fiction field includes 308 biographies compiled from questionnaires sent to the authors, and chronological lists of 483 writers' published works. This facsimile reprint of the 1975 edition includes a title index, introduction, and minor corrections. A now-classic guide to the major and minor SF writers active in the early 1970s.
Author : Keith Laumer
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473215536
'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.
