The Monitors (Paperback)

by Keith Laumer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc (May 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812543696
• ISBN-13: 978-0812543698
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,815,525 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lighthearted Social Satire from the creator of Retief, June 9, 1997

By A Customer

Written in the mid-sixties, The Monitors pokes fun at contemporary American mores, politics and patriotism by introducing a race of powerful, but benevolent, aliens intent on improving the human race. Told from a luckless ex-pilot's point of view and featuring an embarassing cast of nuts, The Monitors is Laumer at his sardonic best. If you're a fan of Jame Retief, you'll enjoy The Monitors

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, December 19, 2008

By	Blue Tyson "- http://freesf.blogspot.com" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Monitors (Mayflower Science Fiction by one of America's bestselling SF writers) (Paperback)

A satire.

A freshly out of work rogue is in a bar, when an announcement breaks in that a group of alien Monitors have effectively taken over the world.

He decides to join the resistance - which turns out to be something like a cross between Blackadder and Dad's Army.

All this gives the Monitors time to comment upon all the silliness they see around the place as far as how it is governed, and see what they can do to improve things.

That is, unless Blondel can come up with something.