Future Imperfect
 The
Convulsing Earth had shattered Civilization—and Something Was Moving In To
Pick Up The Pieces
• Mal was heading across an America ravaged by
worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men
who weren't really men. The stranger had an unusual gold coin in his
pocket which no expert could identify, and soon, Mal was to discover some
things who wanted that coin were on his trail....
• Steve Dravek awoke in a nightmarish city and immediately had to fight
for his life against ruthless organ-stealing gangs. His last memories are
of a vanished time from over a century ago. And someone is hunting him
through the dark city, someone who seems to know him better than he knows
himself....
• The commander of the spaceship fleet that just annihilated the enemy
armada has decided to become world dictator unless his second in command
can stop him....
• A national test condemns a man to a life of unskilled labor, unless he
can find a way around the system....
A full-length novel, and a host of short novels and more fill an
action-packed volume by the master of science fiction adventure.
Praise for Keith Laumer:
"Spare, clean prose style and muscular storytelling
technique , . . when the final word is read, the reader comes away with
both a sense of completion and a desire for the tale to go on ... forever,
if possible."
—David Weber
"You're about to have fun," —David Drake
"One of the most productive and popular writers of science fiction."
* —Ben Bova
"... adventure tales that are brisk, light and sardonic,.,."
—Publishers Weekly
"Laumer is a master,.," —Seattle Times
"Tautly written and endless
suspense ... excellent..,." — VOYA
Cover art by Richard Martin
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