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The Foreign Hand Tie
Just because you can "see" something doesn't mean you understand it-and that can mean that even perfect telepathy isn't perfect communication....Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to us. This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately
60 pages, Paperback
First published July 24, 2010
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Randall Garrett
451 books87 followersRandall Garrett's full name was Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett. For more information about him see https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?239
He was married to Vicki Ann Heydron
His pseudonyms include: Gordon Randall Garrett, Gordon Aghill, Grandal Barretton, Alexander Blade, Ralph Burke, Gordon Garrett, David Gordon, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart, Blake MacKenzie, Jonathan Blake MacKenzie, Seaton Mckettrig, Clyde (T.) Mitchell, Mark Phillips (with Laurence Janifer), Robert Randall, Leonard G. Spencer, S.M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance.
He was married to Vicki Ann Heydron
His pseudonyms include: Gordon Randall Garrett, Gordon Aghill, Grandal Barretton, Alexander Blade, Ralph Burke, Gordon Garrett, David Gordon, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart, Blake MacKenzie, Jonathan Blake MacKenzie, Seaton Mckettrig, Clyde (T.) Mitchell, Mark Phillips (with Laurence Janifer), Robert Randall, Leonard G. Spencer, S.M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance.
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March 9, 2019
I didn't read this in any of the editions listed here; my review is based on the first publication of "The Foreign Hand Tie" in Analog in December, 1961.
This is the first time I have given a one star rating. Actually, I like the story. The problem I have is with the long poem that starts, "In a hall of strange description..." Although Garrett does not say in the story that he was the one who wrote the poem, I think there is a definite implication that he did, since there is no other attribution given.
However, Garrett did not write this. It is actually by someone named Jack Bennett. It originally appeared in St. Nicholas magazine in 1892 under the title "Ben Ali the Magician."*
I don't know if the poem is correctly attributed in later printings. If it is, and if the attribution to Mr. Bennett was somehow mistakenly left out in the story's appearance in Analog, then I would owe Mr. Garrett an apology. But I still wonder if the editor of Analog, John Campbell, knew that Garrett didn't write the poem; I also wonder whether Mr. Bennett or his estate ever received any compensation for the use of his poem.
*7/9/2018
My error. The title is actually "Ben Ali the Egyptian."
This is the first time I have given a one star rating. Actually, I like the story. The problem I have is with the long poem that starts, "In a hall of strange description..." Although Garrett does not say in the story that he was the one who wrote the poem, I think there is a definite implication that he did, since there is no other attribution given.
However, Garrett did not write this. It is actually by someone named Jack Bennett. It originally appeared in St. Nicholas magazine in 1892 under the title "Ben Ali the Magician."*
I don't know if the poem is correctly attributed in later printings. If it is, and if the attribution to Mr. Bennett was somehow mistakenly left out in the story's appearance in Analog, then I would owe Mr. Garrett an apology. But I still wonder if the editor of Analog, John Campbell, knew that Garrett didn't write the poem; I also wonder whether Mr. Bennett or his estate ever received any compensation for the use of his poem.
*7/9/2018
My error. The title is actually "Ben Ali the Egyptian."
February 2, 2014
An entertaining sci-fi spy story with an unusual angle.
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