All e-books of Randall Garrett

http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE BY DAVID GORDON _A handful of men, and an incredible adventure--a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to ...

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_Biography_ _Pope John XXIII: Pastoral Prince_ _Science Fiction_ _Unwise Child_ _Books by "Robert Randall"_ _The Shrouded Planet_ _The Dawning Light_ _"Robert Randall" is a pseudonym used on b...

Illustrated by Gardner _The Prisoner_ The two rooms were not luxurious, but MacMaine hadn't expected that they would be.

http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] BY PROXY By DAVID GORDON _It's been said that the act of creation is a solitary thing--that teams never create; only individuals.

http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from _Astounding Science Fiction_ September and October 1959.

By DAVID GORDON _It's seldom that the fate of a shipful of men literally hangs by a thread--but it's also seldom that a device, every part of which has been thoroughly tested, won'...

_The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand...._ Illustrat...

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[Illustration: Their combined thought-force hit him like a thunderbolt.] THE PENAL CLUSTER By IVAR JORGENSEN _Tomorrow's technocracy will produce mo...

In a sense, this is a story of here-and-now.

_You can and you can't; You will and you won't. You'll be damn'd if you do; You'll be damn'd if you don't._ --LORENZO DOW; "Definition of Calvinism" _We've all heard of the w...

This is a science-fiction story.

by JOHNATHAN BLAKE MACKENZIE Illustrated by Schelling There are two basic kinds of fools--the ones who know they are fools, and the kind that, because they do not know that, are ...

Illustrated by Martinez _What is desirable is not always necessary, while that which is necessary may be most undesirable.

A man will always be willing to buy something he wants, and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is impossible.

Illustrated by Martinez [Transcriber's note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction August 1959.

By MARK PHILLIPS =_Kenneth Malone--sometimes known as Sir Kenneth of The Queen's Own FBI--had had problems with telepathic spies, and more than somewhat nutty telepathic counterspies.

DARREL T. LANGART _anything you can do ..._ 1963 _Doubleday & Company, Inc._ _Garden City, New York_ A shorter version of thi...

By IVAR JORGENSEN _You hear a lot of talk these days about secret weapons.

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction November 1960, December 1960, January 1961, February 1961.

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL How could a man tell the difference if all the reality of Earth turned out to be a cosmic hoax?

By DARREL T. LANGART _Given psi powers like clairvoyance and telepathy, solving problems of sabotage would be easy, of course.

_As every thinking man knows, every slave always yearns for the freedom his master denies him..._ "_But, gentlemen," said the Physician, "I really don't think we can consider any religion which...

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction December 1961.

Illustrated by Paul Orban Commander Benedict kept his eyes on the rear plate as he activated the intercom.

[Illustration: The frightful carnage would go down in the bloody history of space.] "I want you to put me in prison!"

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Illustrated by Martinez In his office apartment, on the top floor of the Terran Embassy Building in Occeq City, Bertrand Malloy leafed casually through the dossiers of the four new men who had be...

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact Fiction October 1961.

_A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of--and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous.

_In the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people.

Illustrated by Schelling _There was a man in our town, And he was wond'rous wise; He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratch'd out both his eyes!_ --Old ...

_Any war is made up of a horde of personal tragedies--but the greater picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life.

[ILLUSTRATION] I'd been in Ravenhurst's office on the mountain-sized planetoid called Raven's Rest only twice before.

Iron bars do not confine a Man--only his body.

This is about the best-hated author on Earth.

http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] HAIL TO THE CHIEF +-----------------------------+ | | | BY SAM AND | | JANET ARGO ...

_Sometimes an organizational setup grows, sets its ways, and becomes so traditional that once-necessary jobs become unnecessary.

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction September 1961.

First of two parts.

There are inventions of great value that one type of society can use--and that would, for another society, be most nastily deadly!

_Illustrated by EMSH_ OVERTURE--ADAGIO MISTERIOSO The neurosurgeon peeled the thin surgical gloves from his hands as the nurse blotted the perspiration from his forehead for the last time afte...

One thousand seventy-five miles above the wrinkled surface of Earth, a woman was in pain.