History Creator / RandallGarrett

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In "The Highest Treason", humanity has eliminated all forms of discrimination, resulting in a society where you cannot say that one man can be better than another in ''anything'', promotion is strictly according to age, and that society is quickly losing a war against aliens.

* BabyFactory: The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee''. A spaceship crashlands on a planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate it. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. So as punishment she's given a {{lobotomy}} so she'll still be available as breeding stock.

* BabyFactory: * The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee''. A spaceship crashlands on a planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate it. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. So as punishment she's given a {{lobotomy}} so she'll still be available as breeding stock.

Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) was a prolific SF author and inveterate punster, who wrote under a bewildering variety of pen names, including David Gordon, Lou Tabakow, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart[[note]](an anagram of his own name)[[/note]], Jonathan Blake [=MacKenzie=], S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gordon Aghill, as well as his own name. He claimed to need the pseudonyms so that magazine editors could publish more than one of his stories in a single issue. In one two-year period, he sold over eighty stories, many in collaboration with Creator/RobertSilverberg.

He was a founding member of the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism and active in SF fandom, renowned for his Falstaffian personality and love of puns. Several well-known writers documented some of the more printable stories of Garrett (and Garrett stories) in the tribute collection "The Best of Randall Garrett" edited by Silverberg and released not long before Garrett's death.

* BluffingTheAdvanceScout: In "The Best Policy", alien advance scouts kidnap a human, stick him in a lie detector, and order him to describe Earth. He manages to give them a description in which every sentence is technically true, but the overall effect is a misleading picture of humans who possess immense, even supernatural powers, and the aliens are frightened off.

* CrazySane: Miss Thompson, the title character of "That Sweet Little Old Lady". The only known telepath who is neither catatonic nor a gibbering wreck, she is not only ''compos mentis'', she's arguably the sanest and most sensible character in the book -- except that she's unshakeably convinced that she's a 400-year-old immortal who used to be [[TheVirginQueen Queen Elizabeth I]].

* TomatoSurprise: "Despoilers of the Golden Empire" appears at first to be a standard bit of SpaceOpera, until the final paragraph reveals an important detail the narrator has up to that point been working hard to conceal.

He was a founding member of the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism and active in SF fandom, renowned for his Falstaffian personality and love of puns. Several well-known writers documented some of the more printable stories of Garrett (and Garrett stories) in the tribute collection "The Best of Randall Garrett," edited by Silverberg and released not long before Garrett's death.

He was a founding member of the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism and active in SF fandom, renowned for his Falstaffian personality and love of puns. Several well-known writers documented some of the more printable Garrett stories in the tribute collection "The Best of Randall Garrett," edited by Silverberg and released not long before Garrett's death.

He was a founding member of the SocietyForCreativeAnachronism.

* PurpleProse: Spoofed and parodied relentlessly. It's not easy trying to out-purple E. E. Smith.

* HumansAreCthulhu: The Creator/HPLovecraft takeoff "The Horror Out of Time" starts off as apparently a typical Lovecraftian tale of a first-person narrator having a mind-bending encounter amidst prehistoric ruins, but it eventually becomes clear that narrator is not human, and that the human race is the horrible creatures depicted on the walls of the ruins.

Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) was a prolific SF author and inveterate punster, who wrote under a bewildering variety of pen names, including David Gordon, Lou Tabakow, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart[[note]](an anagram of his own name)[[/note]], Jonathan Blake [=MacKenzie=], S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gordon Aghill, as well as his own name. He claimed to need the pseudonyms so that magazine editors could publish more than one of his stories in a single issue. In one two-year period, he sold over eighty stories, many in collaboration with RobertSilverberg.

His collaborations include the Psi-Power trilogy (with Laurence Janifer, as "Mark Phillips"), the Nidor series (with RobertSilverberg, as "Robert Randall"), and the Gandalara Cycle (with Vicki Ann Heydron).

Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) was a prolific SF author and inveterate punster, who wrote under a bewildering variety of pen names, including David Gordon, Lou Tabakow, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart[[hottip:*:(an anagram of his own name)]], Jonathan Blake [=MacKenzie=], S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gordon Aghill, as well as his own name. He claimed to need the pseudonyms so that magazine editors could publish more than one of his stories in a single issue. In one two-year period, he sold over eighty stories, many in collaboration with RobertSilverberg.

His solo work notably includes the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' series of detective stories set in a gaslamp fantasy alternate history. He wrote many parodies, such as the ''{{Lensman}}'' takeoff "Backstage Lensman", which were collected in two volumes as ''Takeoff!'' and ''Takeoff! Too''.

* HumansAreCthulhu: The HPLovecraft takeoff "The Horror Out of Time" starts off as apparently a typical Lovecraftian tale of a first-person narrator having a mind-bending encounter amidst prehistoric ruins, but it eventually becomes clear that narrator is not human, and that the human race is the horrible creatures depicted on the walls of the ruins.

* {{Feghoot}}: Randall invented his own variant, where the final line would be a pun on the name of another science fiction writer.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Invoked by the central character in "The Highest Treason"; facing death or capture, he arranges his death so that no body will be found, deliberately to promote a belief that he somehow got away and one day he'll be back.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Garrett played around with [[IsaacAsimov Asimov's]] famous three laws in ''Unwise Child''.

* FantasyContraception: In the Gandalara Cycle, the women of a HumanSubspecies are completely aware of their own fertility.

Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) was a prolific SF author and inveterate punster, who wrote under a bewildering variety of pen names, including David Gordon, Lou Tabakow, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart, Jonathan Blake [=MacKenzie=], S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gordon Aghill, as well as his own name. He claimed to need the pseudonyms so that magazine editors could publish more than one of his stories in a single issue. In one two-year period, he sold over eighty stories, many in collaboration with RobertSilverberg.