Randall Garrett: 156 books

To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men; that he wasn't even Clayton any more. He was only--THE MAN WHO HATED MARS.

That he was a phony Swami was beyond doubt. That he was a genuine prophet, though, seemed ... but then, what's the difference between a dictator and a true prophet? So was he....

Eight students of telepathy go mad and their instructor is a vegetable. That makes the instructor the perfect person to work out the bugs in his system.

An amusing story of the ambassador to a backwater planet who has misfits of every type dumped on him because all the competent people are involved in the interstellar war. When peace talks convene on a nearby planet, he is stuck trying to hold the fort until Earth's real negotiators show up.

The title is in Latin for an obvious reason. An exploratory expedition's food is destroyed in a freak accident, and the native fruits of the planet are mysteriously poisonous. Every Earth creature that eats them, dies; except MacNeil. He gets fat while everyone else starves.

Kenneth Malone - sometimes known as Sir Kenneth of The Queen's Own FBI - has had problems with telepathic spies, and more than somewhat nutty telepathic counterspies. But this case of the vanishing delinquents is at least as bad...

An interesting short story, written around the time hypnotic aversion therapy was popular. Criminals, who have a psychological twist that compels them to commit their crimes are given an aversion to their crime and turned loose again.

The Capitol was, at any rate, some relief from the sight of Thomas Boyd and a group of agents busily grilling two technicians. That was going on in the Senate Office Building, and Malone had come over to watch the proceedings. Everything had been set up in what Malone considered the most complicated...

How could a man tell the difference if all the reality of Earth turned out to be a cosmic hoax? Suppose it turned out that this was just a stage set for students of history?

F.B.I. space agent Ken Malone in a world that didn't exist.

When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums’ nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild,...

How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?

The story is about a politician gaming the presidential electoral system so that the right man ends up president.