Writing Career
Keith Laumer is better known for his Bolo stories, concerning self-self-conscious juggernaut-sized tanks with overwhelming firepower in the range of Megatons/second, and for his satirical Retief series, about a both-fisted diplomat world health organization is constantly getting to overcome a red-tape-infused failures of population sustaining list rather Ambassador Grossblunder; the latter were greatly influenced by his long-period career in the United States Foreign Service.

4 of his shorter works received Hugo or Nebula Award nominations (one of them, "In the Queue", received nominations for two), & his novel The Plague of Demons was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966.

When you took a peak years of 1959-1971, Laumer was a prolific science fiction writer whose act was universally at least competent. His novels tended to watch one of 2 system:

straight adventures in time & space, using an emphasis in latent superman protagonists, self-sacrifice and transcendence

broad comedies, sometimes of a explicitly all over the top variety

Around 1971, Laumer suffered a stroke while working on the novel The Ultimax Human. Fallowing a stroke, he was unable to write for two or three years. When he explained within an locate by using Charles Platt published in The Dream Makers (1987), he refused to accept a doctors' diagnosing. He come higher by owning an guide explanation & developed an choice (& super painful) coarse of action program. In a cycle of this period, the total of books which were in the pipeline at the instance of the stroke were published.

In the mid-1970s, Laumer partially recovered from either a stroke & resumed writing, even so a quality of his function dropped precipitously. Laumer too re-edited several of his earliest works while it were reprinted in the 1980s, often to their hurt.

Bibliography

Bolo
Books on Bolo war machines: self-aware tanks. Bolo (1976) Bolo: Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade (1986) Knave Bolo (1986) A Stars Must Hold off (1990) A Compleat Bolo (1990)

Retief
Satiric escapade of Retief, a astronomic diplomat. Envoy to Occident (1963) Astronomic Diplomat (1965) ''Retief's War (1966) Retief & a Warlords (1968) Retief of the CDT (1971) Retief: Envoy to the Stars (1975) Retief escaped (1978) Retief Unbound (1979) Retief: Diplomat at Arms (1982) Retief to the Deliverance (1983) A Link to of Retief (1984) Retief (1986) Retief in the Ruins (1986) Retief & a Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude (1986) Reward for Retief (1989) Retief & a Rascals (1993) Retief! (posthumous, ed. Eric Flint) (2002)

Imperium
Books placed around the Imperium mythos: the continuum of parallel worlds policed per Imperium, the government depending in an replacement Stockholm.

Worlds of the Imperium (1962) A More Side of Period (1965) Assignment around Nowhere (1968) Beyond a Imperium (omnibus edition of The More Side of Period & Assignment around Nowhere) (1981) Zone Yellow (1990) Imperium (omnibus edition of Worlds of the Imperium, Assignment inside Nowhere & A More Side of Instance, ed. Eric Flint) (2005)

Time Trap
Period Trap (1970) Back to the Instance Trap'' (1992)

Lafayette O'Leary
a risible same of a Imperium mythos, where the hero has the ability to travel to feudal/magical surrogate Earths. A Instance Bender (1966) The World Shuffler (1970) A Shape Changer (1972) A Galaxy Builder (1984)

The Avengers (novelizations of the TV series)
#5: A Afrit Afair (1968) #6: A Drowned Queen (1968) #7: A Gold Bomb (1968)

The Invaders (novelizations of the TV series)
A Encroacher (UK title The Meteor Men, A Story of Encroacher published when by Anthony LeBaron) (1967) Enemies From either Beyond (1967)

Standalone Books
Training Project & Build Flying System (non-nonfictional prose) (1960, revised in 1970) The Trace of Memory (1962) A Dandy Instance Machine Dupery (1964) The Plague of Demons (1965) Embassy (non-genre) (1965) Catastrophe Planet (1966) Earthblood (by using Rosel George Brown) (1966) A Monitors ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064684/ filmed] inside 1969) (1966) Astronomical Odyssey (1967) Nine by Laumer (collection) (1967) Planet Start (with Gordon R. Dickson) (1967) A Day Prior to Forever & Thunderhead (2 short novels) (1968) Greylorn (collection) (1968) ''It's the Mad, Mad, Mad Galaxy (collection) (1968) A Long Twilight (1969) A Seeds of Gonyl (If magazine, never published as a book) (1969) A Home around November (collection) (1970) A Star Treasure (1970) Deadfall (guide title Slim chance, filmed when [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073526/ Peeper] inside 1975) (1971) Dinosaur Beach (1971) When There Was the Jumbo (collection) (1971) A Heavy Indicate (collection) (1972) A Infinite Cage (1972) Nighttime of Delusions (1972) Timetracks (collection) (1972) A Glory Game (1973) A Undefeated (collection) (1974) A Right of Keith Laumer (collection) (1976) A Ultimax Human (1978) A Breaking Globe (revision of Catastrophe Planet) (1981) Star Colony (1982) Knight of Delusions (revision of Nighttime of Delusions) (1982) Chrestomathy (collection including numerous selection) (1984) Prevent as a Hero (1985) A More Sky & A Home within November (1985) Alien Minds (collection including numbers of selection) (1991) Judson's Eden (1991) Keith Laumer: A Lighter Side (posthumous omnibus, ed. Eric Flint) (2001) Odyssey (posthumous omnibus, ed. Eric Flint) (2002) The Plague of Demons & More Stories (posthumous omnibus, ed. Eric Flint) (2003) Legions of Space'' (posthumous omnibus, ed. Eric Flint) (2004)