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Randall Garrett
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 Randall Garrett was one of the most prolific science fiction writers of the late 1950s and early
1960s, his name a fixture on the contents page of Astounding and his lesser stories spread throughout the other
digest-size magazines, often under pseudonyms (he and Robert Silverberg on occasion wrote the entire contents
of certain issues). He was facile, fast-paced, and his stories were filled with clever ideas and plot twists. He
is remembered today almost exclusively for a series of stories in an alternate universe where magic is
science, featuring his noble sleuth, Lord Darcy. But for nearly a decade, he was one of the characteristic sf writers
of his time (he flourished from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties), rather like Raymond F. Jones in the
decade before him.
This story, from 1954, is an early work, and one of his significant contributions to hard science fiction
in the subgenre of explorations of the effects of faster-than-light space travel, and the ironies and logical
paradoxes it might present. Other examples include A. E. Van Vogt's "Far Centaurus" and, perhaps, Ian
Watson's "The Very Slow Time Machine."
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