Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett was an American writer (1927–1987). Born in Lexington.
Our catalogue lists 80 books by Randall Garrett, mostly classic fantasy, Victorian science fiction and adventure fiction. They span 1967 to 1981. The most-read is Occasion ... for Disaster. 77 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 20 have free LibriVox audiobooks.
Books by Randall Garrett
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Occasion ... for Disaster
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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Supermind
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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Unwise Child
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Murder and Magic
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Too Many Magicians
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Pagan Passions
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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Despoilers of the Golden Empire
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The Judas Valley
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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That Sweet Little Old Lady
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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Brain Twister
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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A Spaceship Named McGuire
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The Impossibles
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
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Anchorite
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Anything You Can Do
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The Penal Cluster
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What The Left Hand Was Doing
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The Man Who Hated Mars
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Damned If You Don't
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The Highest Treason
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But, I Don't Think
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With No Strings Attached
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His Master's Voice
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Nor Iron Bars a Cage
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Out Like a Light
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The girl from Bodies, Inc
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After a Few Words
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By Proxy
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Hail to the Chief
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Or Your Money Back
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Dead Giveaway
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The Measure of a Man
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Heist Job on Thizar
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Stroke of Genius
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In Case of Fire
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Kill Me if You Can!
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Lord Darcy Investigates
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The Bramble Bush
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The Ambassador's Pet
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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The price of eggs
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The Destroyers
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Suite Mentale
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Slaughter on Dornell IV
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Deadly decoy
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The man who knew everything
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Beyond our control
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The Mannion Court-Martial
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The Incomplete Theft
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Viewpoint
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Blank?
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Cum Grano Salis
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The Unnecessary Man
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Skid Row Pilot
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To make a hero
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Gentlemen: please note
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The Alien Dies at Dawn
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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The Eyes Have It
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House Operator
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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Psichopath
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Needler
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Menace From Vega
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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Thin Edge
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Guardians of the Tower
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Satellite of Death
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Hero From Yesterday
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The Best of Fences
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Fifty Per Cent Prophet
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Through time and space with Benedict Breadfruit
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Bleekman's Planet
Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
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Respectfully mine
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Time Fuze
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Prisoner of War
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Hanging by a Thread
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Burden the hand
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Spatial Delivery
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The Foreign Hand Tie
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The Time Snatcher
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Instant of Decision
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A World by the Tale
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The Asses of Balaam
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Belly Laugh
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Awards
- ✦Hugo Awards 1978 — Best Short Story, Lauralyn (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1967 — Best Novel, Too Many Magicians (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1960 — Best Novel, Brain Twister (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1976 — Best Novelette, The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhaill (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1983 — Best Collection, The Best of Randall Garrett (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1982 — Best Collection, Lord Darcy Investigates (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1980 — Best Novella, The Napoli Express (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1975 — Best Novelette, A Matter of Gravity (nominee)
Biography
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. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections. He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention. Source: wikipedia