বায়োগ্রাফি: S. M. Tenneshaw was the pen name of Science fiction and Fantasy writer Randall Garrett. He also wrote under several other pseudo names like David Gordon, John Gordon, Darrel T. Langart, Alexander Blade, Richard Greer, Ivar Jorgensen, Clyde Mitchell, Leonard G. Spencer, and Gerald Vance. He was awarded the Sidewise Award for Alternate History Special Achievement Award in 1999 posthumously. He was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960. In his personal life, he was loved by his friends yet was also very promiscuous, complicated and disrespectful to women. He married Vicki Ann Heydon who was also a writer. She largely wrote the Gandalara Cycle fantasy series Garrett went to coma after an attack of encephalitis in the summer of 1979. He died 8 years later.