Future Imperfect
by Keith Laumer
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Mal was heading across an America ravaged by earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men who weren't really men, and had an unusual gold coin which no expert could identify. This edition contains a full-length novel, and a host of short novels by the master of science fiction adventure.Tags
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A full-length novel, and a host of short novels and more fill an action-packed volume by the master of science fiction adventure. — 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, and had an unusual gold coin which no expert could identify. Soon, someone who wanted the coin back was on his trail - and they weren't human...The commander of the fleet that just annihilated the alien enemy 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 collection of short stories about the future that all have something negative overall taking place in society or with the world itself. Hurray for Dystopian writing?
This is this first book that I've gotten from DailyLit. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get into it. The story was okay, but not interesting enough for me to want to keep reading it.
Could be just me, but these were novellas that should have been much shorter........
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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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