Randall Garrett | |
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| Born | December 16, 1927 Lexington, Missouri[1] |
| Died | December 31, 1987 (aged 60) |
| Pen name | David Gordon, John Gordon, Darrel T. Langart, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Science fiction and Fantasy |
| Notable awards | Sidewise Award for Alternate History Special Achievement Award, 1999 (posthumous) |
Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett[2] (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.[citation needed]
- ^ "Randall Garrett", in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1988, p 126
- ^ Garrett, Randall in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; edited by John Clute and John Grant; published 1997