Takeoff! (1979) SSC by Randall Garrett (ed. Jerry eBooks 2019)
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Overview: Randall Garrett writes in his introduction: “A pastiche attempts to tell a story in the same way that another author would have told it. . . . A parody, when properly done, takes an author’s idiosyncracies—of style, content, and method of presentation—and very carefully exaggerates them. You jack them up just one more notch.” When a master does it, few things in literature are more delightful. Here are Asimov, Lovecraft, Russell, van Vogt, Sprague de Camp, Anderson and many others, so well done that you may have difficulty believing it. Takeoff is a rare phenomenon, and one of the most delightful books in science fiction. And it is more than that. It also speaks of, from A.E. van Vogt’s introduction: the “elegance of his style” and “the beauty of his imagery,” and the “easy insertion of difficult technical information. No matter what he writes, the style flows poetically.” But most of all, it’s just plain fun.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Table of Contents:
Introduction by A.E. van Vogt
Foreword
Gentelmen: Please Note
Backstage Lensman
The Best Policy
The Cosmic Beat
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
The Horror Out of Time
Look Out! Duck!
Masters of the Metropolis
Mustang
. . . No Connections
On the Martian Problem
Prehistoric Note
“Reviews in Verse”
Isaac Asimov’s “The Caves of Steel”
Alfred Bester’s “The Demolished Man”
L. Sprague DeCamp’s “Lest Darkness Fall”
A.E. van Vogt’s “Slan”
Poul Anderson’s “Three Hearts and Three Lions”
John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”
The Adventures of “Little Willie”
Introduction to Benedict Breadfruit by Grendel Briarton
Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit
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