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Laddar... Worlds of the Imperium (urspr publ 1962; utgåvan 1970)av Keith Laumer
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Usted va andando por la calle, recibe un golpe en la cabeza, es introducido en una furgoneta celular y despierta… en una realidad diferente, en un mundo semejante al que conoce, pero cuyos datos han sido sutilmente modificados. Seguidamente sus raptores le ordenan que asesine a un tirano repugnante y encabece una revoluvión. Con un pequeño detalle: el odiado dictador es el sosias, el doble perfecto de usted mismo, y no sale jamás de su palacio por temor al "cariño" de sus subditos. review of Keith Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - June 21, 2013 Having just recently read my 1st bk by Keith Laumer, Time Trap, & having enjoyed it in an escaping-from-my-miserable-life-w/-an-entertaining-distraction kind of way, I picked up another 18 bks by him from a local bkstore where they were mostly selling for less than $2 apiece. SO, here goes, a Laumer spree. Worlds of the Imperium was entertaining enuf, it did the trick, I read it in less than a day, I was engrossed, it was fun. The basic plot being that there're parallel universes & that in many of them a way to navigate these universes was discovered but that in most cases this discovery led to the destruction of life on the planet where the discovery was made or even the destruction of the entire planet. 3 of these parallel worlds survived & inhabitants of one of them kidnapped an inhabitant of another to save them from the dictator of the 3rd - or so most of them thought. Slippage between worlds explained mundane mysteries: "Perhaps you yourself have noticed some tiny discrepancy at one time or another; some article apparently moved or lost; some sudden change in the character of someone you know; false recollections of past events. The universe isn't all as rigid as one might like to believe." - p 23 I suppose part of the joy of writing parallel universe novels is rewriting our own history alternatively: ""Back where I came from, everyone knows your name," I said. "Reichmarshall Goering . . ." ""Reichmarshall!" Goering repeated. "What an intriguing title!" he looked around at the others. "Is this not a most interesting and magnificent information?" he beamed. "I, poor fat Hermann, a Reichmarshall, and known to all." He was delighted." - p 34 Part of the reason, & what might seem to be a 'bad' one, for my enjoying reading these entertaining SF novels so much is that I don't feel compelled to take detailed notes on them b/c I'm not that interested in discussing their plots - wch is mainly what they're all about. When I'm reading an Alan Davies or a Louis Zukofsky poetry bk or an Iannis Xenakis music theory bk I feel like it's my intellectual 'duty' to have something intelligent to say about them. When I read Keith Laumer, I feel content w/ just having a good time. Ha ha! There is a touch of formal thinking in the writing when Laumer substitutes "right and bright" (p 80) for "loud and clear" in a parallel universe. Laumer's far from being a writer who's not thinking about his craft. That's a large part about what keeps me interested. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
American diplomat Brion Bayard is on assignment in Stockholm when he notices he's being shadowed. Before he can escape, Bayard is kidnapped and transported to a parallel universe: the Imperium, where history has taken a different turn and the British Empire and its allies rule the world. Yet another parallel world exists, and the Imperium has a task there for their reluctant visitor: the impersonation and assassination of a global dictator who happens to be Bayard's otherworldly double. This adventurous, action-packed novel is the work of award-winning author Keith Laumer, creator of the Bolo and Reteif stories. Science-fiction enthusiasts, especially those who enjoy alternate histories, will savor the twists and turns of this imaginative thriller. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Laumer wrote two sequels in the 1960s and one more in 1990. They are on my list of books to read. ( )