Talk:Randall Garrett

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One wonders why there is no mention of the fantasy series, "The Gandalara Cycle" with Garrett's name on it, but actually written by his wife, Vicki Ann Heydron.

For that matter, someone should create an entry for her, as well.

Pgranzeau 14:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Pseudonyms?
A well-known reference book -- Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography, by Allen J. Hubin, Garland, 1984, ISBN 0 8240 9219 8 -- cites both Murder and Magic and Too Many Magicians as having been written by Larry M(ark) Harris and Randall (Phillips) Garrett and that Randall Garrett is their joint pseudonym. To be honest, I can't quite believe this, having never heard of these books being a collaborative effort, but at the same time, Hubin is so exhaustively encyclopedic and well-known for being thorough and accurate that I find it hard to disbelieve as well. Hubin also apparently notes that the two men write as "Mark Phillips" and that "Laurence M. Janifer" is a pseudonym for Larry M(ark) Harris. Trying to trace back the pseudonyms seems to result in a kind of Ourobouros circle. Does anyone have any other citation for the authorship of the Lord Darcy novels that could verify or disprove this? Or is it simply that I have somehow misread the exact implications of the welter of pseudonyms cited in Hubin? I think the books are very enjoyable, regardless of who wrote them, but perhaps this could be cleared up by someone more expert than myself. Accounting4Taste 20:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge, the info at Mark Phillips (author) details the complete history of their joint authorship pseudonym.--Alabamaboy 20:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Accounting4Taste, if you're right about what Hubin says & if Hubin is right, then a whole lot of other people are wrong. Here is a great link on RG:

http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10578 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.210.230 (talk) 22:09, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Walter Bupp / John Berryman
Some books at Project Gutenberg assert that "Walter Bupp" is another pseudonym for Randall Garrett, but elsewhere it's said to be a pseudonym for John Berryman , (Not to be confused with John Berryman the poet). From what little I've found on the web it looks like the latter is correct, but I haven't found a totally authoritative source either way. Berryman and Garrett had some very similar subject matter in their short stories and, to my mind, a similar writing style, but appear to be different people. Can anyone shed any more light on this? Pastychomper (talk) 11:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, which is about as authoritative as you can get, states definitely that Walter Bupp was a pseudonym of John Berryman's and not, "as has often been stated in the past," one of Randall Garrett's. BPK (talk) 13:30, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Pastychomper (talk) 14:31, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Canonical?
Suite mentale is here at gutenberg. How does it fit in? 88888 13:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

And ...After a Few Words... - canonical? 88888 (talk) 11:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Not forgetting Vigorish 88888 (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Or Hail to the Chief 88888 (talk) 16:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Names
It says in Mark Phillips (author) that his full name is "Randall Philip Garrett" (whence the "Phillips" in "Mark Phillips" comes). If that is true, this article should include that full name in the introduction. On Project Gutenberg, his name appears as "Garrett, Gordon Randall" which sounds fishy to me. Gordon has been a pseudonym of his, apparently, but is not actually one of his names, I'd guess. It would be nice if that part were cleared up in the article, too. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 17:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I'd like to propose that the article Lord Darcy (character) be moved to Randall Garrett. The article on Darcy is almost entirely an "in-universe" description of the character and his actions (see WP:NFICTION), is poorly referenced, and may not meet the General Notability Guidelines as it is. Since the character appears in more than one published work, there is no specific book title that looks to be a suitable target for a redirect or merge. The creator of the character, however, certainly is, hence this proposal. I do not get the sense that Darcy is notable independently of the books in which he appears or the author who created him, and so a merge seems a suitable way of handling such a situation. The "Literature" section of WP:OUTCOMES reiterates this. A loose necktie (talk) 23:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC) I undid the merge. There was no discussion on this on the main Lord Darcy talk page and it's likely people missed the notification of a potential merge. In addition, what you did wasn't a merge as much as it was a stealth deletion, with all of the information in the original Lord Darcy article simply vanishing and almost none of it being placed in the Randall Garrett article. If you want to do such a merge, you must reach a consensus to do so.--SouthernNights (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No comments, no opposition, performing merge. A loose necktie (talk) 09:59, 12 February 2022 (UTC)