Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett
Born(1927-12-16)December 16, 1927
Lexington, Missouri[1]
DiedDecember 31, 1987(1987-12-31) (aged 60)
Pen nameDavid Gordon, John Gordon, Darrel T. Langart, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance
OccupationWriter
GenreScience fiction and Fantasy
Notable awardsSidewise 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]

  1. ^ "Randall Garrett", in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1988, p 126
  2. ^ Garrett, Randall in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; edited by John Clute and John Grant; published 1997