Keith Laumer

writer
Novel

Worlds of the Imperium

  • by Keith Laumer
  • serialized in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, February to April 1961

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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Great Time Machine Hoax

  • by Keith Laumer
  • in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June to August 1963

When Chester W. Chester inherits an omniscient computer, he and his business partner Case Mulvihill arrange to promote the machine as if it were a time machine.
Now, this computer seems to be able to fake up just about any scene you want to take a look at. You name it, it sets it up. Chester, we’ve got the greatest side-show attraction in circus history! We book the public in at so much a head, and show ’em Daily Life in Ancient Rome, or Michelangelo sculpting the Pietà, or Napoleon leading the charge at Marengo.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

A Hoax in Time

  • by Keith Laumer
  • in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June to August 1963

I haven’t yet read this serialized version that Laumer expanded to the novel The Great Time Machine Hoax in 1964, though I think this shorter version might have been published in the Armchair Fiction Double Novel 31 in 2011.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

The Other Side of Time


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Novel

The Time Bender


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Novel

Assignment in Nowhere


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

The Timesweepers


I haven’t yet read this short story that Laumer expanded to the novel Dinosaur Beach in 1971, though perhaps some day I will spot the Ballantine paperback, Timetracks, that collected it along with four other stories.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time Trap


Roger Tyson is caught in a madcap changewar between aliens and time travelers from the future
. . . it would be our great privilege to bring to the hypergalactic masses, for the first time in temporal stasis, a glimpse of life on a simpler, more meaningless, and therefore highly illuminating scale. I pictured the proud intellects of Ikanion Nine, the lofty abstract cerebra of Yoop Two, the swarm-awareness of Vr One-ninety-nine, passing through these displays at so many megaergs per ego-complex, gathering insights into their own early evolutionary history. I hoped to see the little ones, their innocent organ clusters aglow, watching with shining radiation sensors as primitive organisms split atoms with stone axes, invented the wheel and the betatron, set forth on their crude Cunarders to explore the second dimension. . .
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Dinosaur Beach

  • by Keith Laumer
  • (Charles Scribner’s Sons, September 1971)

Timesweep agent Ravel finds himself the only survivor of an attack on the Dinosaur Beach substation until his wife shows up, although their marriage still lies in her future.
The Timesweep program was a close parallel to the space sweep. The Old Era temporal experimenters had littered the timeways with everything from early one-way timecans to observation stations, dead bodies, abandoned instruments, weapons and equipment of all sorts, including an automatic mining setup established under the Antarctic icecap which caused headaches at the time of the Big Melt.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

The Propitiation of Brullamagoo


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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Back to the Time Trap


Twenty-two years after the first installment, Laumer provides a sequel to Roger Tyson’s humorous adventures with powerful time traveling aliens who fling Roger back in forth in time.
“This is Roger; he’s as helpless and bewildered as I am. We were just planning how to escape from this, ah, time trap. How did you—’

“Went in the pantry,’ Fred grunted.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel