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    Ebook37 pages25 minutes

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    By Randall Garrett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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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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