The Second Randall Garrett Megapack: 19 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer
Language: English
Pages: 837
ISBN: 2:00182788
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Retail ePub from the Megapack budget ebook series of themed collections
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack is the follow-up to The Randall Garrett Megapack. Together, these two volumes encompass 42 classic-era science fiction stories by Randall Garrett. [Note that we omit one story—an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume—as unnecessary.]
This volume includes 5 of Randall Garrett's novels (cowritten with Laurence M. Janifer) and 14 short stories, including entries in the Queen's Own F.B.I. and Lord Darcy series. More than 1,300 pages of great science fiction reading!
Complete contents:
INSTANT OF DECISION (1953)
TIME FUZE (1954)
SUITE MENTALE (1956)
QUEST OF THE GOLDEN APE (1957)
PAGAN PASSIONS (1959)
VIEWPOINT (1960)
WHAT THE LEFT HAND WAS DOING (1960)
PSICHOPATH (1960)
THE ASSES OF BALAAM (1961)
THE FOREIGN HAND TIE (1961)
NOR IRON BARS A CAGE... (1962)
UNWISE CHILD (1962)
WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED (1963)
BRAIN TWISTER (1962)
THE IMPOSSIBLES (1963)
SUPERMIND (1963)...
you out of sheer relief.” “Restrain yourself, then,” said Mike the Angel, “because I’m Gabriel.” Nariaki’s smile became genuine. “So! Good! The phone has been screaming at me every half hour for the past five hours. Captain Sir Henry Quill wants you.” “He would,” Mike said. “How do I get to him?” “You don’t just yet,” said Nariaki, raising a long, bony, tapering hand. “There are a few formalities which our guests have to go through.” “Such as?” “Such as fingerprint and retinal patterns,”
hint of a crack in the palazzo marble. “May I raise the whole five thousand?” the Queen said. “It’s okay with me,” the dealer said. “How about the rest of you?” The four grunts he got expressed a suppressed eagerness. The Queen took the new chips Boyd had brought her and shoved them into the center of the table with a fine, careless gesture of her hand. She smiled gaily at everybody. “Seeing me?” she said. Everybody was. “Well, you see, it was this way,” Malone muttered to himself,
surprised that his voice was audible. As a matter of fact, it was too audible; the noise made him wince slightly. He shifted his position very quietly. And he hadn’t forgotten the tickets. No. He distinctly remembered going to see The Hot Seat, and finding seats, and actually sitting through the show with Dorothy at his side. He couldn’t honestly say that he remembered much of the show itself, but that couldn’t be the important thing he’d forgotten. By no means. He had heard that it was a good
relax. This is a hard thing to say, and it must be even harder to hear, but—” “Tell me,” Malone said. “Who’s dead? Who’s been killed?” “I know it’s tough, Malone,” Fred went on. “Is everybody dead?” Malone said. “It can’t be just one person, not from that tone in your voice. Has somebody assassinated the entire senate? Or the president and his cabinet? Or—” “It’s nothing like that, Malone,” Fred said, in a tone that implied that such occurrences were really rather minor. “It’s the machines.”
voluntarily, his own men shouted ‘Ave, Imperator!’ at a public gathering, then the man could claim the title. Later the title degenerated—” He stopped. The manager was staring at him with uncomprehending eyes, and Morgan’s outward smile became genuine. “Sorry,” he said condescendingly. “I forgot that history is not a popular subject in the Welfare World.” Morgan had forgotten no such thing, but he went right on. “What I meant to say was that the spacemen of the Belt Cities have voluntarily