Randall Garrett

BIOGRAPHY AND WRITING CAREER

Garrett is best known for the ), elements that often appear in his shorter works. Michael Kurland would continue to write Lord Darcy stories.

Garrett wrote under a variety of of his name), Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance. He was also a founding member of the Society For Creative Anachronism , as "Randall of the High Tower" (a pun on "garret"). The short novel '' Brain Twister ,'' written by Garrett in conjunction with author Laurence Janifer (using the joint Pseudonym Mark Phillips ) was nominated for the Hugo Award For Best Novel in 1960.

Garrett suffered an attack of Encephalitis in the early 1980s and was not able to write after that; he spent the last years of his life in a Coma .

In 1999 , Randall Garrett won the Sidewise Award For Alternate History Special Achievement Award for the Lord Darcy series.

He was also ordained in the Old Catholic Church . {Link without Title}

WORKS

Series

Lord Darcy

'' Too Many Magicians '' (1979, magazine serialization 1966)

'' Murder And Magic '' (1979, collection of 1964-1973 stories)

'' Lord Darcy Investigates '' (1981, collection of 1974-1979 stories)

''Lord Darcy'' ( 2002 ) (contains the contents of the three books above plus 2 uncollected stories, with minor editing to remove repetitions of the backstory)

with Robert Silverberg, as Robert Randall

'' The Shrouded Planet '' ( 1957 )

'' The Dawning Light '' ( 1959 )

with Laurence M. Janifer , as Mark Phillips

'' Brain Twister '' ( 1962 ) {Link without Title}

'' The Impossibles (novel) '' ( 1963 ) {Link without Title}

'' Supermind (novel) '' ( 1963 ) {Link without Title}

The Gandalara Cycle with Vicki Ann Heydron

'' The Steel Of Raithskar '' ( 1981 )

'' The Glass Of Dyskornis '' ( 1982 )

'' The Bronze Of Eddarta '' ( 1983 )

'' The Well Of Darkness '' ( 1983 )

'' The Search For Ka '' ( 1984 )

'' Return To Eddarta '' ( 1984 )

'' The Gandalara Cycle I (omnibus) '' ( 1986 )

'' The River Wall '' ( 1986 )

Novels

''Pagan Passions'' (1959) (with Laurence Janifer as "Larry M. Harris")

''Unwise Child'' ( 1962 )

'' Anything You Can Do '' ( 1963 ) (as Darrel T. Langart)

Collections

'' Takeoff! '' ( 1980 )

'' The Best Of Randall Garrett '' ( 1982 ) (edited by Robert Silverberg)

'' Takeoff Too! '' ( 1987 )

Notable short fiction

'' Probability Zero '' (1944) first published science fiction story.

'' The Best Policy '' (1957), in which a smart Earthling manages to convince a reconnaissance group of hostile aliens who abduct him that the earthlings are far more advanced and superior race, and instead of a hostile takeover, they send humble ambassadors. The catch is the aliens have a perfect Truth Detector and the hero has to phrase every line carefully so that while being literally honest he can pull off such a huge lie.

'' Despoilers Of The Golden Empire '', in which he spun a Pulp yarn of space flight, swordplay, and derring-do, only to reveal it to be a deception, an account of the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro with careful misdirection in the text.

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Novels and anthologies

'' A Case Of Identity '' 1964

''A Matter of Gravity'' 1974

'' A Stretch Of The Imagination '' 1973

'' All The King's Horses '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1958

'' Anything You Can Do '' as Darrel T.Langart 1963

'' False Prophet '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall

'' Lord Darcy '' 1983

'' Lord Darcy Investigates '' 1981

'' Murder And Magic '' 1979

'' Pagan Passions '' with Larry M. Harris 1959

'' Return To Eddarta '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1985

'' Supermind '' with Laurence M. Janifer as Mark Phillips 1963

'' Takeoff! '' 1980

'' Takeoff Too '' 1987

'' That Sweet Little Old Lady '' also published as '' Brain Twister '' with Laurence M. Janifer as Mark Phillips 1962

'' The Absence Of Heat '' 1944

'' The Best Of Randall Garrett '' with Robert Silverberg 1982

'' The Bronze Of Eddarta '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1983

'' The Chosen People '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1956

'' The Dawning Light '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1959

'' The Eyes Have It '' 1964

'' The Glass Of Dyskornis '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1982

'' The Impossibles '' with Laurence M. Janifer as Mark Phillips 1963

'' The Ipswich Phial '' 1976

'' The Muddle Of The Woad '' 1965

'' The Napoli Express '' 1979

'' The Promised Land '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall

'' The River Wall '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1986

'' The Search For Ka '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1984

'' The Shrouded Planet '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1957

'' The Sixteen Keys '' 1976

'' The Spell Of War '' 1978

'' The Steel Of Raithskar '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1981

'' The Well Of Darkness '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1983

'' Too Many Magicians '' 1967

'' Unwise Child '' also published as '' Starship Death '' 1962

NOVELLES AND SHORT STORIES

'' A Fortnight Of Miracles '' 1965

'' A Little Intelligence '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1958

'' A Pattern For Monsters '' 1957

'' A Spaceship Named McGuire '' 1961

'' A Trip To Anywhen '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1956

'' All About "The Thing" '' also published as '' Parodies Tossed '' 1956

'' Anchorite '' as Johnathan Blake MacKenzie 1962

'' And Check The Oil '' 1958

'' And Then He Was Two '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1957

'' Anything You Can Do '' as Darrell T.Langart 1962

'' Backstage Lensman '' 1978

'' Backward, Turn Backward '' 1959

'' Belly Laugh '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1953

'' Blaze Of Glory '' 1955

'' Blessed Are The Murderous '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1954

'' But, I Don't Think '' 1959

'' By Proxy '' as David Gordon 1960

'' Calling Captain Flint '' with Robert Silverberg as Richard Greer 1956

'' Catch A Thief '' with Robert Silverberg as Gordon Aghill 1956

'' Color Me Deadly '' 1973

'' Cum Grano Salis '' as David Gordon 1959

'' Damned If You Don't '' 1960

'' Dead Giveaway '' 1959

'' Death To The Earthman '' 1956

'' Despoilers Of The Golden Empire '' as David Gordon 1959

'' El Ropo Tarkas '' 1978

'' Engineer's Art '' 1961

'' Fifty Per Cent Prophet '' as Darrell T.Langart 1961

'' Fighting Division '' 1965

'' Fimbulsommer '' with Michael Kurland 1970

'' Frost And Thunder '' 1979

'' Gambler's Planet '' with Robert Silverberg as Gordon Aghill 1956

'''' 1957

'' Gift From Tomorrow '' 1957

'' Hanging By A Thread '' as David Gordon 1961

'' Hepcats Of Venus '' also published as '' The Cosmic Beat '' 1962

'' His Master's Voice '' 1962

'' Hot Argument '' 1960

'' In Case Of Fire '' 1960

'' Infinite Resources '' 1954

'' I've Got A Little List '' 1953

'' Just Another Vampire Story '' 1979

'' Keepersmith '' with Vicki Ann Heydron 1979

'' La Difference '' 1962

'' Lauralyn '' 1977

'' Look Out! Duck! '' as David Gordon 1957

'' Lord Darcy Investigates '' 1981

'' Machine Complex '' 1956

'' Masters Of The Metropolis '' with Lin Carter 1957

'' Murder And Magic '' 1979

'' Mustang '' 1961

'' Needler '' 1957

'' No Connections '' 1958

'' Nor Iron Bars '' as Johnathan Blake MacKenzie 1962

'' Occasion For Disaster '' with Laurence M. Janifer as Mark Phillips 1960

'' On The Martian Problem '' 1977

'' Or Your Money Back '' as David Gordon 1959

'' Out Like A Light '' with Laurence M. Janifer as Mark Phillips 1960

'' Overproof '' as Johnathan Blake MacKenzie 1965

'' Penal Servitude '' 1958

'' Pest '' with Lou Tabakow 1952

'' Plague Planet '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1955

'' Polly Plus '' 1978

'' Pop! '' 1960

'' Prehistoric Note '' 1979

'' Pride And Primacy '' 1974

'' Psychopath '' as Darrell T.Langart 1960

'' Puzzle In Yellow '' 1956

'' Quest Of The Golden Ape '' as Ivar Jorgensen with Milton Lesser as Adam Chase 1957

'' Quick Cure '' 1956

'' Random Choice '' 1961

'' Reading The Meter '' 1974

'' Ready, Aim, Robot! '' 1959

'' Reviews In Verse '' 1980

'' Small Miracle '' 1959

'' Something For The Woman '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1953

'' Something Rich And Strange '' with Avram Davidson 1961

'' Sound Decision '' with Robert Silverberg 1956

'' Spatial Delivery '' 1954

'' Spatial Relationship '' 1962

'' The Adventures Of "Little Willie" '' 1980

'' The Asses Of Balaam '' as David Gordon 1961

'' The Beast With Seven Tails '' with Robert Silverberg as Leonard G. Spencer 1956

'' The Best Policy '' as David Gordon 1957

'' The Bitter End '' 1978

'' The Blaze Of Noon '' with Avram Davidson 1961

'' The Bramble Bush '' 1962

'' The Briefing '' 1969

'' The Day The Gods Fell '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1953

'' The Destroyers '' 1959

'' The Final Fighting Of Fion Mac Cumhaill '' 1975

'' The Foreign Hand-Tie '' as David Gordon 1961

'' The Genius '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1955

'' The Girl From Bodies, Inc. '' with Robert Silverberg as Leonard G. Spencer 1956

'' The Great Kladnar Race '' with Robert Silverberg as Richard Greer 1956

'' The Highest Treason '' 1961

'' The Horror Out Of Time '' 1978

'' The Hunting Lodge '' 1954

'' The Man Who Collected Women '' 1957

'' The Man Who Hated Mars '' 1956

'' The Man Who Knew Everything '' 1956

'' The Man Who Talked To Bees '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1955

'' The Measure Of A Man '' 1960

'' The Mummy Takes A Wife '' with Robert Silverberg as Clyde Mitchell 1956

'' The Penal Cluster '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1957

'' The Queen Bee '' 1958

'' The Secret Of The Shan '' with Robert Silverberg as Richard Greer 1957

'' The Slow And The Dead '' with Robert Silverberg as Robert Randall 1956

'' The Unnecessary Man '' 1959

'' The Vengeance Of Kyvor '' 1957

'' The Waiting Game '' 1951

'' The Wishing Stone '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1953

'' There's No Fool '' as David Gordon 1956

'' Thin Edge '' as Johnathan Blake MacKenzie 1963

'' Through Time And Space '' with Benedict Breadfruit I-VIII as Grandall Barretton 1962

'' Time Fuze '' 1954

'' Tin Lizzie '' 1964

'' Two To The Stars '' as Ivar Jorgensen 1955

''Viewpoint'' 1960

'' What The Left Hand Was Doing '' as Darrell T.Langart 1960

'' What's Eating You? '' 1957

'' With All The Trappings '' 1956

'' With No Strings Attached '' as David Gordon 1963

'' Witness For The Persecution '' 1966

'' Zap! '' 1962

EXTERNAL LINKS

Bibliography on SciFan

Works on Project Gutenberg

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