Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about Earth bringing civilization to an alien planet. In this book: The Destroyers, Despoilers of the Golden Empire, The Eyes Have It, A Spaceship Named McGuire, Time Fuze..., After a Few Words..., But, I Don't Think, The Bramble Bush, With No Strings Attached, Nor Iron Bars a Cage...., In Case of Fire, A World by the Tale, The Man Who Hated Mars, Anything You Can Do, Anchorite, The Highest Treason, The Measure of a Man, The Foreign Hand Tie, Fifty Per Cent Prophet, ...Or Your Money Back, Thin Edge, Damned If You Don't, Instant of Decision, Cum Grano Salis, Psichopath, The Unnecessary Man, Hail to the Chief, Unwise Child, Hanging by a Thread, The Asses of Balaam, What The Left Hand Was Doing, By Proxy, Belly Laugh, Heist Job on Thizar, Dead Giveaway, Suite Mentale, That Sweet Little Old Lady, Viewpoint and The Penal Cluster