Author: Keith Laumer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction
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ISBNs: 9780743436069 9781451638615 0743436067 1451638612 |
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The Convulsing Earth had shattered Civilizationand Something Was Moving In To Pick Up The Pieces 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 things 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. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for Keith Laumer: "Spare, clean prose style and muscular storytelling technique , . . when the final word is read, the reader comes away with both a sense of completion and a desire for the tale to go on ... forever, if possible." ¾David Weber "You're about to have fun," ¾David Drake "One of the most productive and popular writers of science fiction." ¾Ben Bova "... adventure tales that are brisk, light and sardonic...." ¾Publishers Weekly "Laumer is a master..." ¾Seattle Times "Tautly written and endless suspense ... excellent..." ¾ VOYA
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