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One of the most prolific and gifted writers in a very fast field. For science fiction is really where it's at these days. In fact, anyone not writing s.f. is clearly out-of-step. In this arena, Laumer is close to being one of the old-timers (no pun intended despite the theme of this collection). He is, quite simply, very good indeed and one helluva lot of fun to read. Contents: The Timesweepers • (1969) • novelette The Devil You Don't • (1970) • novelette The Time Thieves • (1972) • novelette (aka The Star-Sent Knaves) The Other Sky • (1968) • novella (aka The Further Sky) Mind Out of Time • (1968) • shortstory(less)

The waves flung up against the purple glowof double sleeplessness. Along the piersthe ships return; but sailing I would gothrough double rings of fire, double fears.So therefore let your bright vaults heave the nightabout with ropes of wind and points of light,and say, as all the rolling stars go, "Ihave stood my feet on rock and seen the sky."—These are the opening lines from The Galactica, by the one-armed poet Geo, the epic of the conflicts of Leptar and Aptor

Away and Beyond (1952) is vintage van Vogt, with 7 good stories:"The Vault of the Beast" (1940) An implacable shape changing alienmonster from Mars is defeated by a flight of van Vogtian super mathematics.The Great Engine (1943) is interesting, but not one of the great tales. **The Great Judge (1948) is a brief P.K. Dickian tale ***Secret Unattainable (1942) includes Hitler's secret weapon, a good story. ***"The Harmonizer" (1944) A Stapledonian vignette which compresses eighty million years in a few pages.The Second Solution (1942)- is a good beast tale. ***"Film Library" (1946) A particularly vivid "hard SF" dream which is not about anything but itself. *Asylum (1942) - not just a vampire tale, but a PK Dickian story! ****

Edward Davis, a rookie of the Time Service, has already made several successful jumps to the past. Now he is given his most important mission. *** Two members of the Service have disappeared in ancient Egypt and Edward Davis's assignment is to locate and rescue them. *** But is he ready for all that Egypt has to offer and for the surprising truths he discovers as he explores this ancient land of myths and mysteries-truths that jeopardize his own mission and return back to the future

Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways -- built by a race lost in the clouds of time -- the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid -- all once as human as he.Yet Nathan Brazil's metamorphosis was more terrifying than any of those...and his memory was coming back, bringing with it the secret of the Well World.For at the heart of the bizarre planet lay the goal of every being that had ever lived -- and Nathan Brazil and his comrades were...lucky?...enough to find it!

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