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\nAs I’ve said before<\/a>, Keith Laumer was one of my favourites when I first started reading science fiction. I would never accuse him of being a particularly brilliant writer, but he has a knack for writing gripping, fast-paced adventure science fiction. Laumer writes in a sort of polished pulp style, with loner heros relying on their native brawn and brain to solve the predicaments their superscience weapons cannot help them with. There’s a hint of sex, though nothing beyond noticing the graceful curves of a passing female. The best mainstream author I could compare Laumer to would be John D. MacDonald.\n<\/p>\n \nWorlds of the Imperium<\/cite> is a good example of Laumer’s style. It’s the first in a series of three novels starring Brion Bayard, secret agent of an British-German-Swedish empire that spans several dozen parallel earths, a much more benign empire than that imagined by H. Beam Piper<\/a>. The other two novels are The Other Side of Time<\/cite> and Assignment in Eternity<\/cite> and all three of them have been published in a omnibus edition by Baen Books. A fourth novel, Zone Yellow<\/cite> was written long after Laumer had had the stroke that robbed him of his writing abilities and by all reports is … not good.\n<\/p>\n
\nWorlds of the Imperium
\nKeith Laumer
\n124 pages
\npublished in 1962
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