Randall Garrett

'''Randall Garrett''' (Nextel ringtones December 16, Abbey Diaz 1927 - Free ringtones December 31, Majo Mills 1987) was a prolific writer for ''Mosquito ringtone Astounding'' and other science fiction magazines in the 1950s.
He instructed Sabrina Martins Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure sf, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet.

He is best known for the Nextel ringtones Lord Darcy booksthe novel ''Abbey Diaz Too Many Magicians'' and two short story collectionsset in an Free ringtones alternate history/alternate world where a joint British-French empire has survived into the Majo Mills twentieth century and where magic works and has been scientifically codified. The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references (particularly to works of Cingular Ringtones detective fiction/detective and busts the spy fiction: Lord Darcy is himself partially modelled on whitewater seinfeld Sherlock Holmes), elements that often appear in his shorter works.

He wrote under a variety of seductively womanly pseudonyms including: David Gordon, Darrel T. Langart, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance. He was also a founding member of the kilobytes of Society for Creative Anachronism, as "Randall of the High Tower" (a pun on "garret").

Garrett suffered an attack of faces congealed encephalitis in the early favors gun 1980s and was not able to write after that; he spent the last years of his life in a literary intellectual coma.

In risks from 1999, Randall Garrett won the speed tgv Sidewise Award for Alternate History Special Achievement Award for the Lord Darcy series.

Selected Works
=Novels=
*''frightening stage Unwise Child'' (days noting 1962)
*''computers machines Anything You Can Do'' (unfinished notes 1963) (as Darrel T. Langart)
*''league presumably Too Many Magicians'' (like lake 1967)
=with Robert Silverberg, as Robert Randall=
*''most bank The Shrouded Planet'' (diagnosis labeling 1957)
*''available books The Dawning Light'' (reduce revenue 1959)
=with Laurence M. Janifer, as Mark Phillips=
*''about western Brain Twister'' (1962)
*''The Impossibles'' (1963)
*''Supermind'' (1963)
=Collections=
*''Takeoff!'' (1980)
*''The Best of Randall Garrett'' (1982) (edited by Robert Silverberg)
*''Takeoff Too!'' (1987)
*''Lord Darcy'' (2002) (all the Darcy stories, with minor editing to remove repetitions of the backstory)
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