Randall Garrett: 156 books

Overture—Adagio Misterioso THE NEUROSURGEON peeled the thin surgical gloves from his hands as the nurse blotted the perspiration from his forehead for the last time after the long, grueling hours.

One shipwrecked alien against the power of an entire planet means a losing battle... until Earth builds superman! An alien decides to kill Earth men, and Earth, almost losing the battle builds a super creature to kill the alien.

A confused man wakes in a strange room full of odd objects. As he explores, his memories begin to come back to him. Eventually, he realizes he has been transported from his prison cell to a strange city in the future.

Sometimes an organizational setup grows, sets its ways, and becomes so traditional that once-necessary jobs become unnecessary. But it is sometimes quite hard to spot just which man is the unnecessary one. In this case ... not the one you think!

(1960) Sci-fi (Gadgets) / Espionage (Kidnapping) / Short story (Magazine story) Plot bullets There is a secret American government organization having, hopefully, the anomalous name of 'The Society For Mystical and Metaphysical Research, Inc.'. Agent Spencer Candron has a mission. Communist...

An amusing story about a frustrated scientist who can't convince anyone to take his impossible invention seriously, so he disguises it.

An interesting story of the only survivor of an interstellar attack trying to get information on the enemy's plan to explode the sun back to Earth before the plan can happen. But the crippled ship won't travel fast enough. A one-man story, well done.

Tomorrow's technocracy will produce more and more things for better living. It will produce other things, also; among them, criminals too despicable to live on this earth. Too abominable to breathe our free air.