Title: Keith Laumer Collection - Fully Processed, 1986
Administrative/Biographical History
John Keith Laumer (1925-1993) was a well-known science fiction writer who was most active from 1959-1971, until a stroke slowed down his writing career considerably. .A prolific author, he was best known for his satirical stories of Jame Retief, which Laumer introduced in the pulp magazine Fantastic Science Fiction Stories in January 1960. Retief is a swashbuckling, rulebreaking galactic diplomat who serves in the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, and whose adventures are based loosely in Laumer's own experiences as an employee of the U.S. Foreign Service in the 1950s.
