The Randall Garrett Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Pages: 858
ISBN: B00BLSYB5U
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"The Randall Garrett Megapack" (and its companion volume, "The Second Randall Garrett Megapack") together encompass 42 classic-era science fiction tales by Randall Garrett. Readers interested in works by the author of the Lord Darcy and the Queen's Own F.B.I. series will find much of interest here! [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as unnecessary.]
"The Randall Garrett Megapack" -- focusing primarily on shorter words --collects 25 stories from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction Stories, Analog, and Amazing Stories.
Included are:
BELLY LAUGH
HEIST JOB ON THIZAR
THE MAN WHO HATED MARS
THE JUDAS VALLEY
THE PENAL CLUSTER
DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE
CUM GRANO SALIS
BUT, I DON’T THINK
DEAD GIVEAWAY
...OR YOUR MONEY BACK
THE DESTROYERS
IN CASE OF FIRE
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
DAMNED IF YOU DON’T
BY PROXY
THE HIGHEST TREASON
A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE
HANGING BY A THREAD
FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
THE BRAMBLE BUSH
...AFTER A FEW WORDS...
ANCHORITE
ANYTHING YOU CAN DO
THE UNNECESSARY MAN
If you like this volume, you will definitely want to add "The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" too. (Available on this ebook store.)
And don't forget to search for "Wildside Megapack" in this store to see the whole series, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to westerns, mysteries, ghost stories -- and much, much more!
was talking to. “Let me talk to Mr. Terrence Elshawe, please,” said the voice at the other end. “This is Detective Lieutenant Martin of the Los Angeles Police Department.” “This is me, Marty.” “Good! Boy, have I had trouble getting to you! I had to make it an official call before the phone company would put the call through. How does it feel to be notorious?” “Great. What’s new?” “I got the dope on that Skinner fellow. I suppose you still want it? Or has success gone to your head?” Elshawe
Then, almost like a child, he began to weep. FINAL INTERLUDE Colonel Walther Mannheim said: “It will take five years, Stanton.” He was looking at the young man seated in one of the three chairs in the small, comfortable room. There was a clublike atmosphere about the room, but none of the three men were relaxed. “Five years?” said the young man. He looked at the third man. Dr. Farnsworth nodded. “More or less. More if it’s a partial failure—less if it’s a complete failure.” “Then there is a
and began walking again. There were plenty of human bones down here. Mannheim had told him that the tunnels had been used as air-raid shelters when the sun bomb had hit the island during the Holocaust. Men, women, and children by the thousands had crowded underground after the warning had come—and they had died by the thousands when the bright, hot, deadly gases had roared down the ventilators and stairwells. There were even caches of canned goods down here, some of them still perfectly sealed
chained to eight lumps of pitted rock, spun endlessly in endless space. And then the ship came. The flare of its atomic rocket could be seen for over an hour before it reached the Penal Cluster. The six eyed it speculatively. Although only two of them were facing the proper direction to see it with their physical eyes, the impressions of those two were easily transmitted to the other four. “Another load of captives,” whispered Juan Pedro de Cadiz. “How many this time, I wonder?” “How long
dreaming of the day when she would become an Exec lady. Not until he had come had she tried to project that dream into reality. The Guesser thumbed the opener, and the traveling case split into halves. The sight of the golden uniform of a Class One Executive gleamed among the women’s clothing. And she had forgotten no detail; the expensive beamgun and holster lay beneath the uniform. He picked it up carefully, almost reverently. It was the first time he’d held one since he’d been beamed down