Keith Laumer : the lighter side

Two hapless heroes struggle with a world gone mad in a pair of whimsical science fiction novels that chronicle the misadventures of two hapless heroes caught in out-of-kilter spacetime clockwork. Two complete novels in one volume feature hapless heroes caught in an out-of-kilter spacetime clockwork: Chester W. Chester IV, who has inherited his great-grandfather's lifework--a super computer that can bring any situation or time to life; and Roger Tyson, who is being pursued through time by a motorcycle-riding, rutabaga-like alien in a world where eras millions of years apart have been combined into an insane smorgasbord of eons. Contains: In the Queue The Planet Wreckers The Body Builders The Devil You Don't The Exterminator (aka "A Bad Day for Vermin") The Big Show Goobereality Prototaph The Great Time Machine Hoax In his shabby room in the formerly elegant hostelry known as the Grand Atumpquah Palace, Jack Waverly pulled the coarse weave sheet up about his ears and composed himself for sleep.