by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1961
- Autor: Randall Garrett
A distinctive feature of the ass of Balaam was that he was more penetrating than his master. Sometimes a child is more perceptive - because he is more straightforward and logical - than an adult .......
Number of pages: ~ 20 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1961
- Autor: Randall Garrett
It’s rare that the fate of many people literally hangs in the balance - but it’s also rare that the device, each part of which has been thoroughly tested, does not work ......
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Conventional rhetoric has taken a violent turn. But what to expect when the candidate is a person with a name similar to Cannon? The buttons now fastened on each lapel said something like: "Blast them with a cannon!" or "Cannon Can Do!" Posters and signs in the form of boxes with a little more dignity read: WIN WITH CANNON and CANNON FOR PRESIDENT and simply JAMES H. CANNON....
Number of pages: ~ 25 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1961
- Autor: Randall Garrett
There was no doubt that he was a fake Swami. He seemed to be a true prophet, but what is the difference between a dictator and a true prophet? So he was ......
Number of pages: ~ 19 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1957
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Even seasoned veterans of the Psychedelic Police do not expect the opportunity to take possession of their minds controlled by some external force. This never happened to Houston, but he knew that Artmore had once gone through this experience. This clearly did not like. By the time the mad baronet got out of the car and paid its driver, the whole territory was surrounded and filled with well-armed, silent and cautious agents of the Psychodevant Police. Poor fish, Houston thought. Another controller was detained by the psychedelic police. Another abnormal person, already convicted and...
Number of pages: ~ 35 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1960
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Mr. Terrence Elshaw did not match the mental picture that comes to the mind of an ordinary person when he hears the words "news reporter." Automatically, everyone thinks of the general run of serious, beautiful, with hard jaws, even eyes, with gentle voices gentlemen whom everyone sees on the TV screen. No matter which newsletter to subscribe to, news reporters are pretty much all type. And Terrence Elshaw is just not that type....
Number of pages: ~ 27 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Not dizzying, not even fast, but very noticeable, a huge mass of jagged rock rotated around its axis. There are two main types of fools: those who know that they are fools, and those who, because they do not know this, are a deadly threat!...
Number of pages: ~ 33 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Randall Garrett
When a super robot named Snookums learns how to create its own superbombs, it becomes obvious that the Earth is by no means the safest place for it. Therefore, Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as the Snookums nanny, agree to organize Operation Brain, a plan to transport the robot to a distant planet. Mike Angel - MR R. Gabriel, Power Design - designed a propulsion system that would deliver the Branchell spaceship to its secret destination along with its unusual cargo. And, as a reserve officer in the Space Patrol, Mike is the logical replacement for...
Number of pages: ~ 103 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1960
- Autor: Randall Garrett
There are times when a broken tool is better than a healthy one, or a perverted person is more useful than a whole tool. For example, a whole bottle of beer is not half a weapon, but half a bottle of beer ......
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1959
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Any war consists of a horde of personal tragedies, but a more complete picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life. For a lifestyle - good, bad or indifferent - exists because it is very loved ......
Number of pages: ~ 21 pages
by Randall Garrett
These days they talk a lot about secret weapons. If this is not a new wrinkle in nuclear fission, it is a weapon to shoot at corners and winding stairs. Or maybe a good new strain of bacteria is guaranteed to give you radioactive dandruff. Our own suggestion is to send some of our commercials to Russia and bring the enemy to death....
Number of pages: ~ 8 pages