Keith Laumer - Böcker

Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed toadmit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos werealmost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. Their artificial intelligenceswere designed to make them selflessly serve and protect humans throughout thegalaxy and made each Bolo the epitome of the knight sans peur et sansreproche, and often far more noble than the humans who gave them theirorders. Created by Keith Laumer, the saga of the Bolos has been extended by severalof the best writers in science fiction. Now, the best stories of the saga arecollected in one Omni-Trade volume, including work by New York Timesbest-selling writers David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, and S. M. Stirling, militaryscience fiction grand master David Drake, and Laumer himself, who recount theexploits of the dauntless Bolos in Their FinestHour.

Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure oftime travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales!American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrustinto what he believes is a truck. He’s relieved to find his captors veryapologetic, and very British — that is, until they begin speakingabout nations of which Bayard has never heard. His captors were from Earth, yes.But not his Earth. Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths,each different, where history has taken every possible turn — and thereare even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-timetravel. Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into, theEarth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earththat has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is... a parallelversion of Bayard himself! Now Bayard’s mission is clear: to prevent hisalternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home,the Imperium.

Enter the worlds of Keith Laumer. From the adventures of self-aware superheavy battle tanks to the intricacies of galactic diplomacy via the clash of parallel worlds, Laumer's imagination knew few bounds.In Worlds of the Imperium, an American diplomat finds himself kidnapped by agents of the British Empire, which rules over a parallel world.James Retief travels the stars, resolving conflicts and avoiding cultural clashes, while battling the endless bureaucracy of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne in Retief: Envoy to New Worlds.In Bolo, Laumer explores what happens when mankind's most advanced weapons of war become self aware. These are the opening volumes to three classic series, collected in one exciting, thrill-a-minute omnibus.