Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning.

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.

John Keith Laumer was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a U.S. diplomat.  --This text refers to the Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful, and, in the long run, deadly! It was up to Jame Retief to figure out how to respond to the Yill\'s overtures in the correct manner; all the while keeping his superiors from making a deadly mistake. Only one man could think quickly enough to get the job done!

Product DescriptionAs superbeings from the end of time struggle for control of the universe with aliens from another galaxy, Roger and his friends find themselves face to face with history's bad guys in their quest to return to their own time.

Kidnapped and sent to an alternate reality, Lafayette O'Leary must find the source of his own power to alter reality in order to return to his wife in his home world, Artesia

SUMMARY: Mal was heading across an America ravaged by worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men who weren't really men. The stranger had an unusual gold coin in his pocket which no expert could identify, and soon, Mal was to discover some thugs who wanted that coin were on his trail... Steve Dravek awoke in a nightmarish city and immediately had to fight for his life against ruthless organ-stealing gangs. His last memories are of a vanished time from over a century ago. And someone is hunting him through the dark city, someone who seems to know him better than he knows himself... The commander of the spaceship fleet that just annihilated the enemy armada has decided to become world dictator unless his second in command can stop him... A national test condemns a man to a life of unskilled labor, unless he can find a way around the system... A full-length novel, and a host of short novels and more fill an action-packed volume by the master of science fiction adventure. Book jacket.

Down and out on planet Earth... It was raining, starting to sleet. My last ride had dumped me twenty country miles from nowhere. If I didn't get warm soon I was going to die. That's why I took a chance on that weird corn silo, even after I knew it was...something else. and that's why I, Billy Danger, woke up 400 light years from home, "native" gun bearer for a lordly alien and his beautiful mistress. **

v2 The authorized history of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century is readily available to anyone who cares to pore through the official files of the Terrestrial Diplo­matic Corps. For serious students of history, however, it would be well to read between the lines of what has been set down for posterity. The records, for example, fail to grasp the full significance of the work done by a career diplomat named Jame Retief, in his efforts to alleviate strife on the emerging planets of our galaxy. Contained here are several accounts of Retief's con­tribution to the peace of the universe—written in the hope that the injustice committed by the history books will thus be rectified.