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Takeoff!
Author: | Randall Garrett |
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Starblaze, 1980 |
Series: | Takeoff!: Book 1 |
1. Takeoff! |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Light/Humorous SF |
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Synopsis
Has science fiction lost its pizazz? Fantasy not as fantastic as it used to be? Takeoff! With Randall Garrett's lively collection of classic parodies and pastiches. Within these pages, Garrett takes on such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Frank Russell, E. E. "Doc" Smith, and more! The original "classics" will never be the same!
Contents:
- Introduction - essay by A. E. van Vogt
- Foreword - essay
- Gentlemen: Please Note (1957) short story
- Backstage Lensman (1978) novelette
- The Best Policy (1957) short story
- The Cosmic Beat (1962) novelette
- Despoilers of the Golden Empire (1959) novelette [as by David Gordon]
- The Horror Out of Time (1978) short story
- Look Out! Duck! (1957) novelette [as by David Gordon]
- Masters of the Metropolis (1956) short story by Lin Carter and Randall Garrett
- Mustang (1961) short story
- ... No Connections (1958) short story
- On the Martian Problem (1977) short story
- Prehistoric Note (1979) short fiction
- Reviews in Verse - essay
- Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" [Parodies Tossed] (1956) poem
- Review: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (1956) review
- Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man" [Parodies Tossed] (1956) poem
- Review: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1956) review
- L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall" [Parodies Tossed] (1956) poem
- Review: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (1956) review
- A.E. van Vogt's "Slan" [Parodies Tossed] (1956) poem
- Review: Slan by A. E. van Vogt (1956) review
- Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions": A Calypso in Search of a Rhyme [Parodies Tossed] (1979) poem by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron
- Review: Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson (1979) review
- John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" [Parodies Tossed] (1956) poem
- Review: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (1956) review
- Zap! [Poor Willie] (1963) poem
- Blaze of Glory [Poor Willie] (1955) poem
- Hot Argument [Poor Willie] (1960) poem
- The Adventures of "Little Willie" - essay
- Introduction to Benedict Breadfruit - essay by Reginald Bretnor [as by Grendel Briarton]
- Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit I-VIII [Benedict Breadfruit] (1962) short fiction [as by Grandall Barretton]
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