Randall Garrett
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The Alien was really alien-and Earth was faced with a strange problem indeed. They had to have a superman. And there weren't any. So.... Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction and collaborated with him on...
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Twelve Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Randall Garrett, Volume 2. Featured here: "The Destroyers", "By Proxy", "Hail to the Chief", "Dead Giveaway", "Cum Grano Salis", "The Measure of a Man", "The Assess of Baalaam", "With No Strings Attached", "No Iron Bars a Cage...", "Damned If You Don't", "That Sweet Little Old Lady", and "Instant Decision"..
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Metal fingers, five on each hand; each hand attached to an arm, and each pair of arms connected to a silvery sphere that sat atop a four-foot pillar. Within the pillar, micro-relays ticked and chuckled, sending delicately measured surges of power here and there through silver nerves to metal muscles. Responding, the hands built an energy generator. And when they finished, they built another. And another. On and on, monotonously.
Crayley rubbed...
4) Unwise Child
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Synopsis: When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums' nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet.
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Set in an alternate reality where Richard the Lionheart's descendants rule the Anglo-French Empire, the laws of magic have developed in place of the laws of physics. In this late 20th century world, people still travel through pea fog by horse and carriage, but magic has made levitation and enchantment spells the norm, especially at a sorcerer's convention. The International Sorcerer's Convention is in full swing. Until London's Chief Forensics Sorcerer,...
6) Supermind
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This third book after Brain Twister and The Impossibles concludes the story around FBI agent Ken Malone.
Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it.
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Eleven Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Randall Garrett, Volume 3. Featured here: "The Eyes Have It", "But, I Don't Think", "Anchorite", "In Case of Fire", "Psichopath", "The Measure of a Man", "Time Fuze", "Belly Laugh", "...After A Few Words", "Damned If You Don't", "Hanging by a Thread", "Anything You Can Do!", and "The Bramble Bush".
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Amazing Stories Volume 172 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "Respectfully Mine", by Randall Garrett, "And It Was Good" by A. Early, "The Satellite-Keeper's Daughter" by Mark Reinsberg, "Native Son" by T. D. Hamm, and "The Oddly Elusive Brunette" by John Victor Peterson.
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If King Richard the Lionheart hadn't died in 1199 and his descendants ruled the Anglo-French Empire, castles would be illuminated by lantern light and long distance conversation would be held by way of "telesin." In the world of detective Lord Darcy and his sidekick, sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn, it is a very different looking late 20th Century. The laws of magic have developed in place of the laws of physics, but it is Lord Darcy's remarkable deductive...
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"The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" is the follow-up to "The Randall Garrett Megapack." Together, these two volumes encompass 42 classic-era science fiction stories by Randall Garrett. [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as unnecessary.]
This volume includes 5 of Randall Garrett's novels (co-written with Laurence M. Janifer) and 14 short stories, including entries in the Queen's Own...
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Amazing Stories Volume 162 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "Blank?", by Randall Garrett, "Age of Anxiety", by Robert Silverberg, "The Men Return", by Jack Vance, "The Show Must Go On" by Henry Slesar and "Pangborn's Paradox" by David Mason.
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The Serapis Classics edition of "The Randall Garrett Omnibus" features 23 incredible stories from one of the masters of science fiction! Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on...
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"The Randall Garrett Megapack" (and its companion volume, "The Second Randall Garrett Megapack") together encompass 42 classic-era science fiction tales by Randall Garrett. Readers interested in works by the author of the Lord Darcy and the Queen's Own F.B.I. series will find much of interest here! [Note that we omit one story-an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume-as unnecessary.]
"The Randall Garrett Megapack" - focusing...
18) Brain Twister
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Brain Twister is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent, is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret project to develop a non-rocket space ship at Yucca Flats Labs in Nevada. But this is not a normal spy, this spy laughs at the FBI and all attempts to...
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Twelve Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Randall Garrett, Volume 1. Featured here: "The Man Who Hated Mars", "Special Delivery", "His Master's Voice", "Thin Edge", "A World by the Tale", "The Penal Cluster", "The Unnecessary Man", "Fifty Per Cent Prophet", "Suite Mentale", "Viewpoint", "What The Left Hand Was Doing", and "The Foreign Hand Tie".