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The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition)
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Randall Garrett
450 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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November 19, 2022
Despite what it says on GoodReads, this product (ASIN: B0036R4KI2) has no Lord Darcy stories, and no intros by famous writers. This is 9 novels and 34 short stories, thrown together in useless Alphabetical order so we get no sense where they fit in the author's career or in the 20th century.
Reading all an author's work at once is unfair to the author. Taken as they were published, each stands alone. Run together the patterns are strong. A guy wakes up badly. Party? Beating? Battle? Doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. Some action ensues, enough for the story to get bought. Occasionally with some cute observations (cute the first few times). Then halfway in, Randall falls into a long introspective lecture on some aspect of society or economics. OK, but the story momentum is lost. Finally Randall nears his proposed story length and writes a hasty ending. He does this over and over.
My impression is that Randall was a reliable issue-filler for the magazines, especially when Campbell was on his ESP kick.
Three stars for good stories. An extra star for the very low price per story (about 10 cents/novel; such a deal!).
Files are probably from Project Gutenberg. The occasional [Illustration] is typical of Gutenberg files taken from magazine scans. While most/all these stories are free at Project Gutenberg, I'm happy to pay a couple bucks for the compilation.
Garrett often co-wrote with other authors; Brain Twister with Laurence M Janifer, etc. This is not mentioned in this collection.
This file "chokes" my Kindle. Loading is slow, look-ups are slow, once the screen went blank then after several minutes the Kindle restarted. If it were my old Kindle, OK; but this is my snazzy NEW (Oct 2022) Kindle.
Reading all an author's work at once is unfair to the author. Taken as they were published, each stands alone. Run together the patterns are strong. A guy wakes up badly. Party? Beating? Battle? Doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. Some action ensues, enough for the story to get bought. Occasionally with some cute observations (cute the first few times). Then halfway in, Randall falls into a long introspective lecture on some aspect of society or economics. OK, but the story momentum is lost. Finally Randall nears his proposed story length and writes a hasty ending. He does this over and over.
My impression is that Randall was a reliable issue-filler for the magazines, especially when Campbell was on his ESP kick.
Three stars for good stories. An extra star for the very low price per story (about 10 cents/novel; such a deal!).
Files are probably from Project Gutenberg. The occasional [Illustration] is typical of Gutenberg files taken from magazine scans. While most/all these stories are free at Project Gutenberg, I'm happy to pay a couple bucks for the compilation.
Garrett often co-wrote with other authors; Brain Twister with Laurence M Janifer, etc. This is not mentioned in this collection.
This file "chokes" my Kindle. Loading is slow, look-ups are slow, once the screen went blank then after several minutes the Kindle restarted. If it were my old Kindle, OK; but this is my snazzy NEW (Oct 2022) Kindle.
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