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Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (1927–1987), who wrote as simply “Randall Garrett,” 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 frequent collaborated with Robert Silverberg, who has written extensively about their work together—Garrett wrote fast action-oriented stories, often to order and under pseudonyms, and schooled Silverberg in that technique. His known pseudonyms include: David Gordon, John Gordon, Darrel T. Langart (an anagram of his name), Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gerald Vance.
AstoundingGarrett’s best known works are the Lord Darcy series—which consists of the novel Too Many Magicians a
