THE LONG REMEMBERED THUNDER

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Keith Laumer wrote some great stories. He was the creator of the funny Reteif stories and the engaging BOLO military adventure stories. He turned out some great noir science fiction.

This one is low-end pulp. Tremaine is in his old home town looking for someone who has somehow discovered the secret military technology he happens to be working on. Tremaine improbaby tracks down the source and discovers that the technology has been used for sixty years by an alien to thwart an alien invasion. The climax of the story involves handwaving supersicence based on using will amplified by the alien technology...and then time travel.

This is the kind of pulp that gave science fiction a bad name. The science is not science and while the pseudoscience might be central to the story, it is not handled in a particularly inventive way. The characters are two-dimensional, at best.

This story is not representative of Laumer, particularly when he was at his best. I recommend that a reader unacquainted with Laumer start elsewhere.