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    Viewpoint

    By Randall Garrett

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Randall Garrett

    Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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      Viewpoint - Randall Garrett

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Viewpoint, by Gordon Randall Garrett

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Viewpoint

      Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

      Release Date: November 20, 2007 [EBook #23563]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIEWPOINT ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      VIEWPOINT.

      BY RANDALL GARRETT

      Illustrated by Bernklau

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction January 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of—and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous. It's your view of the matter that counts!

      There was a dizzy, sickening whirl of mental blackness—not true blackness, but a mind-enveloping darkness that was filled with the multi-colored little sparks of thoughts and memories that scattered through the darkness like tiny glowing mice, fleeing from something unknown, fleeing outwards and away toward a somewhere that was equally unknown; scurrying, moving, changing—each half recognizable as it passed, but leaving only a vague impression behind.

      Memories were shattered into their component data bits in that maelstrom of not-quite-darkness, and scattered throughout infinity and eternity. Then the pseudo-dark stopped its violent motion and became still, no longer scattering the fleeing memories, but merely blanketing them. And slowly—ever so slowly—the powerful cohesive forces that existed between the data-bits began pulling them back together again as the not-blackness faded. The associative powers of the mind began putting the frightened little things together as they drifted back in from vast distances, trying to fit them together again in an ordered whole. Like a vast jigsaw puzzle in five dimensions, little clots and patches formed as

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