Randall Garrett: Difference between revisions

{{quote| Threading his way through the crowds which thronged the vaulted interior of the terminal, he came to a ''turnstile'', an artifact not unlike a rimless wheel, whose spokes revolved to allow his passage. He placed a coin in the mechanism, and the marvelous machine -- but one of the many mechanical marvels of the age -- recorded his passage on a small dial and automatically added the value of this coin to the total theretofore accumulated. All this, mind, without a single human hand at the controls!}}

* [[Lie Detector]]: Featured in "The Best Policy".

* [[Napoleon Delusion]]: The title character of "That Sweet Little Old Lady" believes herself to be Queen Elizabeth I.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: Invoked by the central character in "The Highest Treason"; facing death or capture, he arranges his death so that no body will be found, deliberately to promote a belief that he somehow got away and one day he'll be back.