Astronaut John Jackson is finally going to realize his life's dream: exploring a brand-new world. However, after spending a century in suspended animation aboard his exploration starship, he awakens to discover that he never left Earth. The world he left behind no longer exists. A world war has left the Earth in decimated shambles, inhabited by new barbarians and deadly sentient tanks. All seems lost, but this devastated world never had to deal with the resolve of John Jackson, the last man standing.

Bolo: The Stars Must Wait

THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE TERRESTRIENNE HAS NEVER SEEN HIS LIKE...
Retief - the most diplomatic diplomat of the 27th century.
His mission: to gain control of the most desirable planet in the universe - without triggering intergalactic war.
He tries talking ... but how does anyone - even Retief - negotiate with an uninhabited planet?
He tries a dice game ... but how does gambling help the solar peace organization prevent the malevolent Basurans (who've eaten their own planet) from turning to Terra's prize colony for an after-dinner snack?
The problems Retief faces are just beginning, but as insurmountable as they seem, the indomitable adventurer prevails - and keeps the state of the universe on an even keel!

Retief: Emissary to the Stars

Retief returns - to make the galaxy safe for diplomacy!
The diplomat extraordinaire faces his ultimate challenge on the embattled planet Furtheron - to keep the peace and keep himself in one piece!
Voracious Crawlie cannibals want him for dinner - while the wily Creepies are besieging Earth's embassy. Then greedy Groacians add fuel to the fire, igniting civil war for their own secret ends.
Only a rare diplomat can pull his Corps out of this stew, save his boss's hide, and preserve the future of the Galaxy!

Retief to the Rescue

Lumbaga is a planet without known virtues - but with some decidedly odd natives. For every Lumbagan is simply an arbitrary assortment of semi-independent organs inspired by a lust for mayhem.
But even the most undesirable chunk of galactic real estate attracts its quota of rival overlords, and the fiendish Groaci had a scheme for absorbing Lumbaga into their sphere of influence. It was working well, too, until it involved Retief, Terran diplomat extraordinary. To his powerful intellect, the machinations of the Groaci were child's play...

Retief's Ransom

Unrivaled in the history of artillery and unsurpassed in its ability to reason, Bolo replaced man in that most human of endeavors: war.
In these scintillating tales of the ever-advancing Dinochrome Brigade, the most effective weapons ever devised ell their own story in action-packed chronicles of extra-terrestrial adventure. 
Bolo: fighting in proud combat as monster saviors of their human creators.

Bolo

BLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND - A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS...
Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Hagroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines. He found himself running from the Hagroon into the arms of Dzok, the educated monkey man of Xonijeel; transported by Dzok to a universe where Napoleon the Fifth was in power and left there to the tender powers of the beautiful witch Olivia; struggling with the bonds of a fictitious past, always striving to regain his lost universe of Zero-zero Stockholm so he could bring the warning which might save his world from sudden, violent death...

The Other Side of Time

Even after the set had been turned off, the TV blared the announcement:
"Citizens of Earth, I am Tersh Jetterax. It is my pleasure to announce to you that a new government has taken over the conduct of all public affairs."
And thus the US was in the hands of the Monitors, the strangely polite yellow-clad beings whose powers were such that they could render everyone helpless - without shedding one drop of blood. 
Who are they? The Russians? An alien race from another planet?

The Monitors

Lors de la mise en service d'une centrale expérimentale de télétransmission d'énergie — premier pas vers la distribution universelle et gratuite d'énergie à toutes les machines de l'humanité —, une étrange tornade se forme sur l'Atlantique. En quelques heures, elle altère désastreusement les conditions météorologiques du continent américain et, s'étendant sans frein, elle plonge bientôt toute la planète dans une terrible et continuelle tempête.Pendant que se déchaîne cette catastrophe, deux hommes singuliers entrent dans l'action : un prisonnier fédéral qui semble avoir été détenu depuis plus d'un siècle, et un vaga­bond qui porte encore une blessure datant de la Guerre de Sécession. Le prisonnier s'évade, le vagabond retrouve mira­culeusement sa jeunesse, et tous deux se dirigent vers la centrale. Tandis qu'ils s'en approchent, la police et l'armée tentent de les arrêter mais en vain. On découvre alors que ces deux hommes se sont déjà rencontrés en bien des époques et bien des lieux, dans un duel qui a donné nais­sance à de nombreuses légendes de l'humanité.Et ce sont ces hommes, nés il y a de longs siècles et sous une autre étoile, qui vont risquer leur vie pour sauver la planète étrangère devenue leur patrie...

Le long Crépuscule

Bébé, après une réflexion considérable, je suis parvenu à la conclusion que la seule réponse légitime concevable à l'univers telle qu'elle est constituée est un coup de rire hystérique.

Je ne suis pas sûr que la pensée pasteurisée soit suffisamment riche en vitamines intellectuelles

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