{"product_id":"imperium-keith-laumer-9781451637953","title":"Imperium","description":"\u003cb\u003eScience fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure of time travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales as a regular Joe from our Earth fights against an alternate version of himself who has become a tyrant in an alternate timeline.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrust into what he believes is a truck. He's relieved to find his captors very apologetic, and very British--that is, until they began speaking about nations of which Bayard has never heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis captors were from Earth, yes. But not \u003ci\u003ehis\u003c\/i\u003e Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurns out that there are countess parallel Earths, each different, where history has taken every possible turn--and there are even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-time travel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBayard discovers that the Earth \u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e has now been thrust into, the Earth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earth that has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is...a parallel version of Bayard himself! Now Bayard's mission is clear: to prevent his alternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home, the Imperium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Laumer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1451637950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451637953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Mass Market Paperbound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.70h x 4.10w x 1.50d","brand":"Keith Laumer","offers":[{"title":"Mass Market Paperbound","offer_id":48659388629247,"sku":"9781451637953","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imperium-keith-laumer-9781451637953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}