Suite Mentale: With linked Table of Contents

By Randall Garrett

“NOW WHAT the hell’s the matter with me?” thought Paul Wendell. He could feel nothing. Absolutely nothing: No taste, no sight, no hearing, no anything. “Am I breathing?” He couldn’t feel any breathing. Nor, for that matter, could he feel heat, nor cold, nor pain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515404866

Randall Garrett

Vicki Ann Heydron met Randall Garrett in 1975. In 1978, they were married, and also began planning the Gandalara Cycle. A broad outline for the entire Cycle had been completed, and a draft of The Steel of Raithskar nearly finished, when Randall suffered serious and permanent injury. Working from their outline, Vicki completed the Cycle. Of all seven books, Vicki feels that The River Wall is most uniquely hers. The other titles in the Cycle are The Glass of Dyskornis, The Bronze of Eddarta, The Well of Darkness, The Search for Kä, and Return to Eddarta.

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Suite Mentale

By Randall Garrett

© 2016 Positronic Publishing

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ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0486-6

First Positronic Publishing Edition

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Table of Contents

Suite Mentale

Overture—Adagio Misterioso

Nocturne—Tempo di valse

Sonata—Allegro con Brio

Scherzo—Presto

Marche Funebre—Lento

Rondo—Andante ma non poco

Quasi Una Fantasia Poco Andante Pianissimo

Coda—Andantino

Suite Mentale

Just about a year ago, two enthusiastic young men came to see me, and during the course of the visit announced that they were starting a campaign to make their living in science fiction—and also to become names in the best science fiction magazines. They planned to collaborate on some material, and write on their own as well, intending to make the grade both ways.

One of the pair was a well-known science fiction fan, who had appeared once or twice in the pro mags, as fans designate journals like this one. The other was Randall Garrett, who had previously sold a respectable number of stories to various magazines in the science fiction and fantasy field.

I shall not try to insult your intelligence by stating that I told them I knew they could do it; on the contrary, I larded doubt with sympathy. However, this story, and Robert