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The Great Time Machine Hoax

Keith Laumer

First published June 1963
Type Novel

In the near future, a man inherits from his great grandfather a super computer which has been surreptitiously augmenting itself and accumulating and analysing all available data about the universe for the intervening years, and is capable of creating a realistic virtual reality of any situation, upon request.

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1964 Hugo Award Best Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1963 Cover Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June 1963 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 63
July 1963 Cover Fantastic Stories of Imagination, July 1963 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 46
August 1963 Cover Fantastic Stories of Imagination, August 1963 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 40
September 1964 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Simon & Schuster Novel
August 1965 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Pocket Books Novel 7
1966 Cover L'ordinateur désordonné Denoël Novel
July 1966 Cover Im Banne der Zeitmaschine Moewig Novel
December 1971 Cover L'ordinateur désordonné Denoël Novel
1974 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Award Books Novel 5
July 1978 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Ace Books Novel 1
August 1984 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Ace Books Novel 1
May 2002 Cover Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side Baen Books Collection 325
July 2002 Cover Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side Baen Books Collection 325
March 2003 Cover Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side Baen Books Collection
May 2007 Cover The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |23.11
May 2007 The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |23.11
October 2010 The 1635: The Eastern Front Disk Baen Books Omnibus |28.11
October 2011 Cover A Hoax in Time / Inside Earth Armchair Fiction Omnibus 5
March 2014 Cover A Hoax in Time Fiction Hunter Press Novel
March 2016 Cover The Great Time Machine Hoax Gateway / Orion Novel
June 2020 Cover The Essential Keith Laumer Library and Archives Canada Collection |6