Knight of Delusions
by Keith Laumer
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It starts out as a weird but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him "escape" as a sort of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, an reality will never be the same. From now on he's a Knight of Delusions.Tags
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I love most of Laumer's work, but I have no memory of the plot now.
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Investigation of reality. It starts out as a wierd but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him "escape" as a sort of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, and reality will never be the same. From now on he's a...Knight of Delusions.
Reprint with the addition of two short stories, "Thunderhead" and "The Last Command".
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549281.Knight_of_Delusions
Investigation of reality. It starts out as a wierd but seemingly understandable assignment, bodyguarding a mad politician whose keepers have decided to let him "escape" as a sort of reality therapy. But to understand the Senator, Florin must enter the Machine, and reality will never be the same. From now on he's a...Knight of Delusions.
Reprint with the addition of two short stories, "Thunderhead" and "The Last Command".
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Keith Laumer was born John Keith Laumer in Syracuse, New York on June 9, 1925. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and a U.S. diplomat. He is best known for the Bolo stories and Retief series. His other works include The Other Side of Time, A Trace of Memory, Dinosaur Beach, and A Plague of Demons. He show more suffered a stroke in 1971, which negatively affected the quality of his work and his career declined. He was also a model airplane enthusiast, and published two dozen designs between 1956 and 1962 in the magazines Air Trails, Model Airplane News, Flying Models, and Aero Modeler. In 1960, he published How to Design and Build Flying Models. He died on January 23, 1993 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Night of Delusions
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- Knight of Delusions
- Original publication date
- 1972
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