A World by the Tale
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Randall Garrett
Vicki Ann Heydron met Randall Garrett in 1975. In 1978, they were married, and also began planning the Gandalara Cycle. A broad outline for the entire Cycle had been completed, and a draft of The Steel of Raithskar nearly finished, when Randall suffered serious and permanent injury. Working from their outline, Vicki completed the Cycle. Of all seven books, Vicki feels that The River Wall is most uniquely hers. The other titles in the Cycle are The Glass of Dyskornis, The Bronze of Eddarta, The Well of Darkness, The Search for Kä, and Return to Eddarta.
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A World by the Tale - Randall Garrett
A WORLD BY THE TALE
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Randall Garrett
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A WORLD BY THE TALE
A WORLD BY THE TALE
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EXACTLY THREE MINUTES AFTER THE Galactic left the New York apartment of Professor John Hamish McLeod, Ph.D., Sc.D., a squad of U.B.I. men pushed their way into it.
McLeod heard the door chime, opened the door, and had to back up as eight men crowded in. The one in the lead flashed a fancily engraved ID card and said: Union Bureau of Investigation. You’re Professor Mac-Lee-Odd.
It was a statement, not a question.
No,
McLeod said flatly, I am not. I never heard of such a name.
He waited while the U.B.I. man blinked once, then added: If you are looking for Professor MuhCloud, I’m he.
It always irritated him when people mispronounced his name, and in this case there was no excuse for it.
All right, Professor McLeod,
said the U.B.I. agent, pronouncing it properly this time, however you want it. Mind if we ask you a few questions?
McLeod stared at him for half a second. Eight men, all of them under thirty-five, in top physical condition. He was fifteen years older than the oldest and had confined his exercise, in the words of Chauncey de Pew, to acting as pallbearer for my friends who take exercise.
Not that he was really in poor shape, but he certainly couldn’t have argued with eight men like these.
Come in,
he said calmly, waving them into the apartment.
Six of them entered. The other two stayed outside in the hall.
Five of the six remained standing. The leader took the chair that McLeod offered him.
What are your questions, Mr. Jackson?
McLeod asked.
Jackson looked very slightly surprised, as if he were not used to having people read the name on his card during the short time he allowed them to see it. The expression vanished almost instantaneously. Professor,
he said, "we’d