Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Cum Grano Salis
    Cum Grano Salis
    Cum Grano Salis
    Ebook59 pages40 minutes

    Cum Grano Salis

    By Randall Garrett

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Cum Grano Salis
    Author

    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.

    Read more from Randall Garrett

    Related to Cum Grano Salis

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      In Search Of ...

      Apr 1, 2019

      Fifteen-year-old Tay lives on Rannoch, a distant planet covered with water, where undersea pods or living chambers provide life support for up to three people—usually two adults and one child. Tay learns that her parents are expecting another child a

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Growing And Weeding Of Dandelions

      Dec 10, 2021

      The boardroom looked like it belonged in an office building, not a spaceship. The chairs had rolling wheels, there was a cup full of pens on the table, and the floor was carpeted. Spin gravity wasn’t a luxury on the Dandelion, it was a given. Faux wi

      10 min read

    • Article

      A Rear Old Time

      May 9, 2021

      A Rear Old Time
      7 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      Meat is Meat

      Feb 10, 2024

      “Doctor…” “Yes, Captain?” Circling like a typhoon, the captain paced around the catch, her boots crunching on the scattered scales as though on shards of broken crockery. She maintained her distance with a learned suspicion, ready to jerk away should

      15 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Nov 3, 2022

      When I read David Hambling’s article ‘Listening to the voice within’ [FT423:16], I became conscious that my ‘inner voice’ was reading the piece aloud in my mind. Obviously I’ve had this realisation before; I decided to ask my wife if she also had an

      10 min read

    • Article

      Night Jump Into Normandy

      Jan 10, 2023

      Night Jump Into Normandy
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Man Who Seduced the World with Whale Songs: Roger Payne sparked the anti-whaling movement. He’s not done yet.

      Dec 27, 2021

      Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our “Whale Songs” issue in September, 2021. It’s been more than 50 years since biologist Roger Payne brought whale song in

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Marine At Guadalcanal

      Nov 6, 2018

      A Marine At Guadalcanal
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Philosopher King of the Hoverflies: A roving meditation on nature, literature, and the joy of collecting flies.

      Mar 12, 2015

      As I now live on an island in the sea and am not an expert on anything but hoverflies, we will simply have to start there. In short, my artistic sense remained relatively undeveloped, and my past, as always, caught up with me. When anyone asked, ther

      26 min read

    • Article

      The Man Who Seduced the World with Whale Songs

      Sep 8, 2021

      It’s been more than 50 years since biologist Roger Payne brought whale song into the lives of millions via the popular album, Songs of the Humpback Whale. At the time, commercial whaling had decimated global whale populations, and Payne’s record help

      7 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Jun 28, 2023

      Readers’ Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Rock Hard

      Sep 10, 2020

      Rock Hard
      7 min read

    • Article

      Oxygen In Ash

      Dec 15, 2021

      IN OUR first COVID summer, the fires outside Fort Collins, Colorado, burned so close that ash would fall from the sky—gentle as snowflakes, gentle as the dying leaves of the honey locust tree. All the clouds were smoke, a sulfur yellow and deep purpl

      4 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Sep 9, 2021

      profanisaurus@viz.co.uk ace in the hole 1. phr. In an argument, a decisive or overwhelming fact that is kept in reserve until needed. 2. phr. Encomium in praise of a skilled sexual partner. ‘Say what you like about the vicar, but he’s ace in the hole

      7 min read

    • Article

      Interview With the Neanderthal

      Jun 14, 2017

      Interview With the Neanderthal
      5 min read

    • Article

      Enjoying Mist Opportunities

      Sep 23, 2020

      Enjoying Mist Opportunities
      5 min read

    • Article

      Into The Jaws Of Hell

      Mar 16, 2023

      Into The Jaws Of Hell
      6 min read

    • Article

      You Know The Drill

      Apr 22, 2020

      You Know The Drill
      4 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of . . .

      Mar 1, 2019

      In Search Of . . .
      7 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Means, Bitter Ends

      Nov 10, 2021

      “In order for this speech to mean anything to me, I’ll need to dispense with the usual demagoguery and, instead, make an attempt at honesty. With this in mind, there is one thing I have to make clear. I’m not in this race to serve your interests, but

      12 min read

    • Article

      Chris Hadfield I REMEMBER…

      Sep 19, 2023

      Chris Hadfield I REMEMBER…
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Dream Crushed

      Jan 30, 2020

      Harry Thompson Headline £7.99 (first published 2005, new edition pending) By ten o’clock, the busiest time in the morning, the telegrams were pouring in to the little office in Parliament Street like flood water through a burst dyke. Babington fought

      4 min read

    Reviews for Cum Grano Salis

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Cum Grano Salis - Randall Garrett

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cum Grano Salis, by Gordon Randall Garrett

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Cum Grano Salis

      Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

      Release Date: April 29, 2008 [EBook #25234]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUM GRANO SALIS ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, LN Yaddanapudi and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      CUM GRANO SALIS.

      BY DAVID GORDON

      Illustrated by Emsh

      Just because a man can do something others can’t does not, unfortunately, mean he knows how to do it. One man could eat the native fruit and live ... but how?

      And that, said Colonel Fennister glumly, appears to be that.

      The pile of glowing coals that had been Storage Shed Number One was still sending up tongues of flame, but they were nothing compared with what they’d been half an hour before.

      The smoke smells good, anyway, said Major Grodski, sniffing appreciatively.

      The colonel turned his head and glowered at his adjutant.

      There are times, Grodski, when your sense of humor is out of place.

      Yes, sir, said the major, still sniffing. Funny thing for lightning to do, though. Sort of a dirty trick, you might say.

      "You might," growled the colonel. He was a short, rather roundish man, who was forever thankful that the Twentieth Century predictions of skin-tight uniforms for the Space Service had never come true. He had round, pleasant, blue eyes, a rather largish nose, and a rumbling basso voice that was a little surprising the first time you heard it, but which seemed to fit perfectly after you knew him better.

      Right at the moment, he was filing data and recommendations in his memory, where they would be instantly available for use when he needed them. Not in a physical file, but in his own mind.

      All right, Colonel Fennister, he thought to himself, just what does this mean—to me? And to the rest?

      The Space Service was not old. Unlike the Air Service, the Land Service, or the Sea Service, it did not have centuries or tradition behind it. But it had something else. It had something that none of the other Services had—Potential.

      In his own mind, Colonel Fennister spelled the word with an upper case P, and put the word in italics. It was, to him, a more potent word than any other in the Universe.

      Potential.

      Potential!

      Because the Space Service of the United Earth had more potential than any other Service on Earth. How many seas were there for the Sea Service to sail? How much land could the Land Service march over? How many atmospheres were there for the Air Service to conquer?

      Not for any of those questions was there an accurate answer, but for each of those questions, the answer had a limit. But how much space was there for the Space Service to conquer?

      Colonel Fennister was not a proud man. He was not an arrogant man. But he did have a sense of destiny; he did have a feeling that the human race was

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1