Title: The Great Time Machine Hoax

Title: The Great Time Machine Hoax Title Record # 2999
Author: Keith Laumer
Date: 1963-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: 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.

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Serializations

Year	Title
2011	A Hoax in Time

Year	Language	Title
1966^ⓘTranslated by Simone Hilling	French	L'ordinateur désordonné
1966^ⓘTranslated by Wulf H. Bergner	German	Im Banne der Zeitmaschine

Year	Title
1963	A Hoax in Time (Part 1 of 3)
1963	A Hoax in Time (Part 2 of 3)
1963	A Hoax in Time (Part 3 of 3)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nominations Below Cutoff	1964 Hugo	Best Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June 1963	1963-06-00	ed. Cele Goldsmith	Ziff-Davis Publishing Company		$0.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Lee Brown Coye
Fantastic Stories of Imagination, July 1963	1963-07-00	ed. Cele Goldsmith	Ziff-Davis Publishing Company		$0.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Jacquelyn Blair
Fantastic Stories of Imagination, August 1963	1963-08-00	ed. Cele Goldsmith	Ziff-Davis Publishing Company		$0.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Vernon Kramer
The Great Time Machine Hoax	1964-09-00	Keith Laumer	Simon & Schuster		$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	190	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Isadore Seltzer
The Great Time Machine Hoax	1965-08-00	Keith Laumer	Pocket Books	50156	$0.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	176	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great Time Machine Hoax	1974-00-00	Keith Laumer	Award Books	AN1171	$0.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	171	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great Time Machine Hoax	1978-07-00	Keith Laumer	Ace Books	0-441-30256-4	$1.75^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	210	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gary Cooley
The Great Time Machine Hoax	1984-08-00	Keith Laumer	Ace Books	0-441-30268-8	$2.75^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	210	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Gary Cooley
Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side	2002-05-00	Keith Laumer	Baen Books	0-7434-3537-0	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	500	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Martin
Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side	2002-07-00	Keith Laumer	Baen Books	0-7434-3537-0	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	500	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Martin
Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side	2003-03-31	Keith Laumer	Baen Books (Baen Free Library)	0-7434-3537-0	$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Richard Martin
The 1634: The Baltic War Disk	2007-05-00	uncredited	Baen Books (Baen CD-ROM Library #13)		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	omni
The 1634: The Baltic War Disk	2007-05-00	uncredited	Baen Books (Baen CD-ROM Library #13)		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	omni
The 1635: The Eastern Front Disk	2010-10-00	uncredited	Baen Books (Baen CD-ROM Library #23)		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	omni
A Hoax in Time / Inside Earth	2011-10-02	uncredited	Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #31)	978-1-61287-047-2 / D-31	$12.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	216	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	W. E. Terry
A Hoax in Time	2014-03-06	Keith Laumer	Fiction Hunter Press		$2.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	George Schelling
The Great Time Machine Hoax	2016-03-24	Keith Laumer	Gateway / Orion	978-1-4732-1590-0	$3.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Essential Keith Laumer	2020-06-24	Keith Laumer	Library and Archives Canada (Giants of Sci-Fi Collection #7)	978-1-7772447-6-7	$2.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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Reviews

Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, February 1965
Review by Algis Budrys (1965) in Galaxy Magazine, February 1965
Review by Judith Merril (1965) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1965
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1966) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1966
Review [French] by Maxim Jakubowski (1966) in Fiction, #154
Review by Samuel Mines (1974) in Luna Monthly, #54, September 1974
Review by Mike Glyer (1979) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, April 1979 , reprinted in:
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review: The Complete Series, Vol. I, No. 1-Vol. II, No. 13, January 1979-February 1980 (2009)
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review: The Complete Series, Vol. I, No. 1-Vol. II, No. 13, January 1979-February 1980 (2009)
Review by Darrell Bain (2005) in My 100 Most Readable (and Re-Readable) Science Fiction Novels