Author

Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer

Randall Garrett (1927-1987)

Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s under a wide variety of pseudonyms and house names. His first publication was a Probability Zero vignette for Astounding Science-Fiction in 1944. Garrett was at one time part of the Ziff-Davis stable writing for Amazing Stories and Fantastic, when he and his sometime collaborator Robert Silverberg ran a 'fiction factory' together. His third wife was Vicki Ann Heydron.

Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002)

Laurence Mark Janifer was an American science fiction author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, later taking the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Over the course of his 50 year writing career, Janifer used a number of pseudonyms and began publishing work of genre interest with "Expatriate" for Cosmos in 1953. Many of his early sf works were written in collaboration with Randall Garrett, both writing under the joint pseudonym of Mark Phillips.

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