Series
Imperium (Keith Laumer)
Keith Laumer · 4 novels · 1 short story · 1962–1990
Keith Laumer's Imperium series opens with Worlds of the Imperium, an alternate-history adventure in which the American Revolution never happened and the British Empire built an authoritarian, inter-world empire using parallel-timeline travel. A man from our own reality is pulled into that divergent world, with the series continuing across three further novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Imperium (Keith Laumer) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s3
- 1970s0
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensparallel universecontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Worlds of the Imperiumdarkest · most intense
- The Other Side of Timebrightest · calmest