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    Amazing Stories Volume 172
    Amazing Stories Volume 172
    Amazing Stories Volume 172
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    Amazing Stories Volume 172

    By Randall Garrett

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    Amazing Stories Volume 172 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "Respectfully Mine", by Randall Garrett, "And It Was Good" by A. Early, "The Satellite-Keeper's Daughter" by Mark Reinsberg, "Native Son" by T. D. Hamm, and "The Oddly Elusive Brunette" by John Victor Peterson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateMar 18, 2024
    ISBN9783989732018
    Amazing Stories Volume 172
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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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