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Takeoff
By Randall Garrett
Copyright © 1979

Cover illustration by Phil Foglio
Interior illustrations by Kelly Freas
Edited by Polly and Kelly Freas


DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Jerry Moore, without whose indefatigable research it would not have
been possible.


Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
GENTLEMEN: 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 DE CAMP’S “LEST DARKNESS FALL”
A.E. VAN VOGT’S “SLAN”
POUL ANDERSON’S “THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS”
JOHN W. CAMBELL’S “WHO GOES THERE?”
THE ADVENTURES OF “LITTLE WILLIE”
INTRODUCTION TO BENEDICT BREADFRUIT
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH BENEDICT BREADFRUIT
 INTRODUCTION
By A. E. van Vogt

In my opinion, the author of Takeoff should have been under official surveillance from the day he
was conceived. At some distant future time, when we really know how to do things right, such as Randall
Garrett will be watched closely from a very early age.
Why?
About 10 years ago I read a new work by the famous Russian psychologist, A. R. Luria (whose
book The Nature of Human Conflicts made him world famous many decades earlier). The new work,