Friday, December 1, 2006

Keith Laumer

'''John Keith Laumer''' (Mosquito ringtone June 9 Sabrina Martins 1925 – Nextel ringtones January 23 Abbey Diaz 1993) was an Free ringtones United States/American Majo Mills science fiction author.

He is best known for his Mosquito ringtone Bolo stories, concerning self-aware juggernaut-sized tanks with awesome firepower in the range of Megatons/second, and for his satirical Sabrina Martins Retief series, about a two-fisted diplomat who is constantly having to overcome the red-tape-infused failures of people with names like Ambassador Grossblunder; the latter were greatly influenced by his long-time career in the Nextel ringtones Diplomat/United States Diplomatic Corps.

Four of his short stories received Abbey Diaz Hugo Award/Hugo or Cingular Ringtones Nebula Award nominations (one of them, "In the Queue", received nominations for both), and his novel ''A Plague of Demons'' was nominated for the exposed steelwork Nebula Award for Best Novel.

In various data 1971, Laumer suffered a barges so stroke while writing his novel ''The Ultimax Man'', after which the quality of his work dropped precipitously. It is said that a sufficiently skilled neurologist can correctly assess what parts of Laumer's brain were affected by the stroke, solely by reading his pre- and post-stroke writing.

=Published Works=
*''Worlds of the Imperium'' - (1962)
*''A Trace of Memory'' - (1962)
*''Envoy to New Worlds'' (first Retief book) - (1963)
*''A Plague of Demons'' - (1964)
*''The Great Time Machine Hoax'' - (1964)
*''The Other Side of Time'' - (1965)
*''Retief's War'' - (1965)
*''The Monitors'' - (1966)
*''Catastrophe Planet'' - (1966)
*''Earthblood'' (with engaged talking Rosel George Brown) - (1966)
*''The Time Bender'' - (1966)
*''Galactical Odyssey'' - (1967)
*''The Invaders #1'' (under the pen name Anthony LeBaron) - (1967)
*''The Invaders #2: Enemies From Beyond'' - (1967)
*''Planet Run'' (with champs and Gordon R. Dickson) - (1967)
*''Assignment in Nowhere'' - (1968)
*''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy'' - (1968)
*''Retief and the Warlords'' - (1968)
*''The Long Twilight'' - (1969)
*''The Seeds of Gonyl'' (''entered thursday If magazine'', never published as a book) - (1969)
*''The House in November'' - (1970)
*''The Star Treasure'' - (1970)
*''Time Trap'' - (1970)
*''The World Shuffler'' - (1970)
*''Dinosaur Beach'' - (1971)
*''Retief of the CDT'' - (1971)
*''The Infinite Cage'' - (1972)
*''The Shape Changer'' - (1972)
*''Night of Delusions'' - (1972)
*''The Glory Game'' - (1973)
*''Retief: Emissary to the Stars'' - (1975)
*''Bolo'' - (1976)
*''The Ultimax Man'' - (1978)
*''Star Colony'' - (1981)
*''Beyond the Imperium'' - (1981)
*''The Breaking Earth'' (revision of ''Catastrophe Planet'') - (1981)
*''Retief: Diplomat at Arms'' - (1982)
*''Retief to the Rescue'' - (1983)
*''The Return of Retief'' - (1983)
*''The Galaxy Builder'' - (1984)
*''End as a Hero'' - (1985),
*''Rogue Bolo'' - (1986)
*''Retief in the Ruins'' - (1986)
*''Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude'' - (1986)
*''Reward for Retief'' - (1989)
*''The Stars Must Wait'' - (1990)
*''Zone Yellow'' - (1990)
*''The Compleat Bolo'' - (1990)
*''Judson's Eden'' - (1991)
*''Alien Minds'' - (1991)
*''Back to the Time Trap'' - (1992)
*''Retief and the Rascals'' - (1993)
*''Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side'' (posthumous, ed. Eric Flint) - (2001)
*''Odyssey'' (posthumous, ed. Eric Flint) - (2002)

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