Gambler's World
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · April 30, 2013
A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring Gambler's World.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in interplanetary diplomacy and intrigue
- Themes
- Interplanetary diplomacy, Gambling and deception, Survival against mutiny
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Adventure, Space Opera, Sci-Fi
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Greylorn - Commander Greylorn must find a lost colony and beg it to come to Earths aid. But before he can accomplish this he must first survive a mutiny aboard his own star ship. A taut story of interplanetary intrigue and adventure! It Could Be Anything - ?The body shifted, rotating stiffly, then tilted upright. ?The sun struck through the amber shape that flowed down to form itself into the crested wave.? IT COULD BE ANYTHING. Gambler?
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s World - Unless Retief and his colleague Magnan get to the bottom of Zorn?s gambling operation and play their own games, a whole spaceship?s worth of diplomats would get their throats cut! The Yillian Way - Junior Terran diplomat Jame Retief visits a government whose members seem determined to insult their delegation. This?ll take some sharp thinking.... Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning.
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 48% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 32% |
| Sci-Fi | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Romance Adventure
- Authors
- Keith Laumer
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- April 30, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Interplanetary diplomacy · Gambling and deception · Survival against mutiny
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure