To Dangers Unknown: A Randall Garrett Collection Volume 2

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A charming collection of 18 pulp stories written by acclaimed author, Randall Garrett.

Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.

Included in this collection:

Story One: ...Or Your Money Back - There are lots of things that are considered perfectly acceptable ... provided they don't work. And of course everyone knows they really don't, which is why they're acceptable...

Story Two: A Spaceship Named McGuire - Fast-paced detective SF story centering around a robot AI.

Story Three: A World by the Tale - This is about the best-hated author on Earth. Who was necessarily pampered and petted because of his crime against humanity...

Story Four: Heist Job on Thizar - Adventures of a swashbuckler on another planet. It may be outer space, but there are still jewels to be stolen and gangsters to be told off...

Story Five: In Case of Fire - There are times when a broken tool is better than a sound one, or a twisted personality more useful than a whole one. For instance, a whole beer bottle isn't half the weapon that half a beer bottle is...

Story Six: Instant of Decision - How could a man tell the difference if all the reality of Earth turned out to be a cosmic hoax?

Story Seven: Psichopath - Given psi powers like clairvoyance and telepathy, solving problems of sabotage shoul be easy, of course. That is, it seems that way at first thought!

Story Eight: Suite Mentale - With a wealth of material to draw upon, he would build himself worlds where he could move around, walk, talk, and make love, eat, drink and feel the caress of sunshine and wind...

Story Nine: The Judas Valley - Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment?

Story Ten: The Man Who Hated Mars - 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...

Story Eleven: The Measure of a Man - What is desirable is not always necessary, while that which is necessary may be most undesirable….

Story Twelve: The Unnecessary Man - 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...

Story Thirteen: Thin Edge - There are inventions of great value that one type of society can use—and that would, for another society, be most nastily deadly!

Story Fourteen: Time Fuze - A nice sci-fi horror story. The ultradrive had just one slight drawback: it set up a shock wave that made suns explode. Which made the problem of getting back home a delicate one indeed...

Story Fifteen: Viewpoint - A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of--and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous...

Story Sixteen: What The Left Hand Was Doing - There is no lie so totally convincing as something the other fellow already knows-for-sure is the truth…

Story Seventeen: With No Strings Attached - A man will always be willing to buy something he wants, and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is impossible….

Story Eighteen: A World by the Tale - This is about the best-hated author on Earth...