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    ...After a Few Words...
    ...After a Few Words...
    ...After a Few Words...
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    ...After a Few Words...

    By Randall Garrett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    ...After a Few Words...
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    Randall Garrett

    Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (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.

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      ...After a Few Words... - Randall Garrett

      Project Gutenberg's ...After a Few Words..., by Gordon Randall Garrett

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      Title: ...After a Few Words...

      Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

      Release Date: December 22, 2007 [EBook #23960]

      Language: English

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      ... After a Few Words ...

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      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog October 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      This is a science-fiction story. History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today.

      He settled himself comfortably in his seat, and carefully put the helmet on, pulling it down firmly until it was properly seated. For a moment, he could see nothing.

      Then his hand moved up and, with a flick of the wrist, lifted the visor. Ahead of him, in serried array, with lances erect and pennons flying, was the forward part of the column. Far ahead, he knew, were the Knights Templars, who had taken the advance. Behind the Templars rode the mailed knights of Brittany and Anjou. These were followed by King Guy of Jerusalem and the host of Poitou.

      He himself, Sir Robert de Bouain, was riding with

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