Odyssey

INCREDIBLE ACCELERATION 
FOR A CORN SILO

Billy Danger had gone past hitting the skids-now he was freezing to death in a blizzard. So he took shelter in a corn silo that turned out to be a disguised alien starship, and evoke up light years from Earth.

Ravel, a time-traveling agent of Nexx Central; stepped out of his cover identity in 1936 and into utter chaos. The Dinosaur Beach station; hidden millions of years in the past, had been destroyed in a war raging through time. He could trust no one as he raced through the aeons, fighting to insure that mankind would not vanish and never have been at all . . . .
Baird Ulrik, killer-for-hire, terminated only those who deserved it-until the day he was framed and forced to go to a distant planet and kill the man who has been a hero to him ....

Three novels of space adventure, and much more, in a volume of the best by the master of interstellar adventure.

Publishers Note: Odyssey has previously appeared in parts as Galactic Odyssey, Dinosaur Beach, and in the volumes Once There was a Giant, Greylorn and Alien Minds. This is the first combined edition.

Praise for Dinosaur Beach, included in Odyssey:

. . . proves once again that Laumer is a master of both science fiction and mystery." 
—Seattle Times

"Tautly written and endless suspense. An excellent book." 
—VOYA

"Keith Laumer is one of science fiction's most adept creators . . . [this is] a first-rate thriller." 
—Savannah News-Press

Cover art by Richard Martin

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, March 2002

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ISBN: 0-7434-3527-3

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Galactic Odyssey (aka Spaceman!) was first serialized in IF magazine (May-July, 1967) and first published in novel form by Berkley in 1967. "A Trip to the City" (aka "It Could Be Anything") was first published in Amazing, January 1963. "Hybrid" was first published in The Magazine of F&SF in November 1961. "Combat Unit" (aka "Dinochrome") was first published in The Magazine of F&SF in November 1960. "The King of the City" was first published in Galaxy in August 1961. "Once There Was a Giant" was first published in The Magazine of F&SF in November 1968. Dinosaur Beach was first published by Scribner's in 1971.

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