num_pages: 192
description: Enter the future world of Keith Laumer, one of the most creatively compelling minds in sf. Does the System threaten to punch-card you? Watch Mart Maiden, forced school dropout, try to beat an infallible system on a "Placement Test." Anxious to escape small-town living? Take "A Trip to the City" with Bret Hale. Beware the frightening world that awaits you at the end of an all too short train ride. Feel like a prisoner in your own home? Flora Trimble has been inside "The Walls" for so long that she doesn't even know if there's a world existing beyond her front door. There's a world beyond yours &amp; it's all here.The Universe, According to Laumer 1967 essay by Harlan Ellison Hybrid 1961 storyEnd as a Hero 1963 noveletteThe Walls 1963 storyDinochrome 1967 story (aka Combat Unit)Placement Test 1964 noveletteDoorstep 1961 storyThe Long Remembered Thunder 1963 noveletteCocoon 1962 storyA Trip to the City 1967 novelette by (aka It Could Be Anything)
language: English
title: Nine By Laumer
publisher: Sphere Books (London)