Before becoming a writer, Keith Laumer served as a military pilot and diplomat. His innate ingenuity, inexhaustible energy, and inimitable humor were organically added to the professional knowledge acquired in those years - and the result was a most successful author, who is now considered one of the twenty best American science fiction writers of the second half of the 20th century. His characters had a remarkable property - as soon as they first appeared on the pages of books, readers instantly fell in love with them. Here is a collection of Laumer’s best works, from “Graylorn” and “The Diplomat at Arms,” which “opened” his literary career, to the famous “The Shore Dinosaurs." Most of the works included in this collection are published for the first time in Russian, or are presented in new translations.