Randall Garrett
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Birth Date December 16, 1927
Death Date December 31, 1987
Personal Name Randall Garrett
Alternate Names
- Randall Garrett
- Darrel T. Langart
- David Gordon, John Gordon, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance.
- Also co-authored with Laurence Janifer under joint pseudonym Mark Phillips.
Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections.
He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention.
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