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Gambler's World
Keith Laumer
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Dodging assassins, Retief and Magnan enter a gambling hall to find a kingpin gambling with his planet's future.
Dodging assassins, Retief and Magnan enter a gambling hall to find a kingpin gambling with his planet's future.
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Retief watched the bearers coming and going, bringing trays laden with drinks, carrying off empties. There was a lull in the drinking now, as the diplomats gathered around the periwigged Chief of State and his courtiers. Bearers loitered near the service door, eyeing the notables. Retief strolled over to the service door, pushed through it into a narrow white-tiled hall filled with the odors of the kitchen. Silent servants gaped as he passed, watching as he moved along to the kitchen door and stepped inside.
IIA dozen or more low-caste Petreacans, gathered around a long table in the center of the room looked up, startled. A heap of long-bladed bread knives, French knives, carving knives and cleavers lay in the center of the table. Other knives were thrust into belts or held in the hands of the men. A fat man in the yellow sarong of a cook stood frozen in the act of handing a knife to a tall one-eyed swe. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Fun!
What a fun little story! I loved the political aspects as much as the gruff attitude of the protagonist. The plot was confusing at some points with certain details not being explained, but the story was so short it didn't impact it all that much.
Fun read, very typical Retief.
Humor and adventure, July 31, 2016
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This review is from: Gambler's World (Kindle Edition)
Keith Laumer's Retief stories and novels were among the first humorous sci-fi works I found in our high school library. The war in Vietnam was raging and I had already realized that
Humor and adventure, July 31, 2016
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This review is from: Gambler's World (Kindle Edition)
Keith Laumer's Retief stories and novels were among the first humorous sci-fi works I found in our high school library. The war in Vietnam was raging and I had already realized that
Retief is at it again
I love Retief of the C.D.T. stories, they are hilarious, and still good space spy fiction at its finest. I highly recommend this one