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Also known as John Keith Laumer

American science fiction writer (1925–1993)

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  • Five Fates
  • Retief Unbound
  • Retieff Ambassador to Space
  • Retief At Large
  • The House in November, A Science Fiction Novel

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John Keith Laumer (June 9, 1925–January 23, 1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full time writer, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and a U.S. diplomat. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Keith+Laumer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • I was still alive, but that was a mere detail, subject to change. (p. 13)
  • Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)
  • The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)
  • “You’re talking to yourself.”“It’s all right. I’m not listening.” (p. 78)
  • “The San Andreas Fault,” Waverly groaned. “Good-by San Francisco!”“It’s the Sequoias I’m thinking of,” Fom Berj sighed. “Remarkable organisms, and not nearly so easy to replace as San Franciscans.”
  • “I can see there’s been a miscarriage of justice.”“An abortion, you mean!

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date of birth
1925-06-09
date of death
1993-01-23
start of work period
1959-00-00
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