Randall Garrett 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.

The first installment of the Randall Garrett Collection features:

Belly Laugh
Instant of Decision
Time Fuze
Heist Job on Thizar
Suite Mentale
That Man Who Hated Mars
The Penal Cluster
...Or Your Money Back
But, I Don't Think
Cum Grano Salis
Dead Giveaway
Little Old Lady
The Unnecessary Man
By Proxy
Damned If You Don't
In Case of Fire
Out Like A Light