Retief!

6 best books like Retief! (Keith Laumer): Speaker for the Dead, A Case of Conscience, Thrawn: Treason, Phule's Paradise, A Phule and His Money, The Service of the Sword

Speaker for the Dead
AuthorOrson Scott Card
ISBN0812550757
Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story...
AuthorJames Blish
ISBN0345438353
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance...
Thrawn: Treason
AuthorTimothy Zahn
ISBN1984820982
Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.

“If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.”

Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441662536
I learned a lot about casinos and how they are run from this one. Not entirely sure that's what Asprin was trying to impart to the reader, but there you go.

I liked that the story was able to delve more into some of the peripheral characters from the first book. I laughed out loud at the depictions...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441006582
Robert Asprin books must be read for their fun factor and not for well-reasoned story-telling. For example, in the prior book in this series Captain Phule and company were ordered to guard a casino, resulting in Capt. Phule being taken hostage. In spite of this lesson in personal security this book begins...
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN0743488369
Readers can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field, with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe. It's a party-and...
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