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In Case of Fire

Randall Garrett

First published March 1960
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

After years of interstellar war, the leader of a remote outpost is given three days to send a negotiator to represent Earth in peace talks. His staff are all a bit quirky, since the more sane people were needed elsewhere, and the aliens are known to be shrewd negotiators.

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Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1960 Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, March 1960 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 42
July 1960 Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, July 1960 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 34
March 1983 Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Anthology 199
June 1986 101 Science Fiction Stories Avenel Books Anthology 269
1992 The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories Magpie Books Anthology 269
February 2008 In Case of Fire Project Gutenberg Chapbook
January 2010 The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories Halcyon Press Omnibus |26
June 2010 Short Science Fiction Collection 37 LibriVox Anthology |7
February 2013 The Randall Garrett Megapack Wildside Press Omnibus |14