Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett
Born	(1927-12-16)December 16, 1927 Lexington, Missouri[1]
Died	December 31, 1987(1987-12-31) (aged 60)
Pen name	David Gordon, John Gordon, Darrel T. Langart, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, S. M. Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Science fiction and Fantasy
Notable awards	Sidewise Award for Alternate History Special Achievement Award, 1999 (posthumous)

Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett^[2] (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a 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 men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.^{[citation needed]}