Garrett Collected by Randall Garrett (.ePUB)
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Garrett Collected: The Collected Short Fiction of Randall Garrett (Jerry eBooks, 2022) by Randall Garrett
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Overview: Randall Garrett, born on December 16, 1927 in Lexington, Missouri, was a science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding Science Fiction 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—set in an alternate world where a joint Anglo-French empire still led by a Plantagenet dynasty has survived into the twentieth century
Randall Garrett was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, as “Randall of Hightower” (a pun on “garret”). The short novel Brain Twister, written by Garrett in conjunction with author Laurence Janifer (using the joint pseudonym Mark Phillips) was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960.
Garrett suffered an attack of encephalitis in the summer of 1979; he spent the last 8 years of his life in a coma. He was married to fellow author Vicki Ann Heydron who, while Garrett was comatose, largely wrote the Gandalara Cycle fantasy series credited to both spouses.
Randall Garrett died on December 31, 1987 in Waco, Texas; he was sixty years old.
In 1999, Randall Garrett was awarded the Sidewise Award for Alternate History Special Achievement Award for the Lord Darcy series.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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