is by a 1980 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories, pastiches, and parodies, by Randall Garrett.

[1] The collection includes Garret's novellete Despoilers of the Golden Empire, a pulp magazine yarn mixing space travel and classic swashbuckling themes to the point where the space-travelling characters fight with swords, bringing to mind the adventures of Flash Gordon, or the Barsoom stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Thrust called Garrett "one of the more under-rated writers in the field" of science fiction, noting that the collection features "Most of the odd little bits of his humorous writing".

for Analog, praising it as "a collection of parodies, pastiches, reviews in verse, and groaners guaranteed to rouse at least a grin.

"[5] Amazing Stories lauded it as "a delightful collection which people who know Randall Garrett have awaited for years,"[6] while Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer stated that it "provide(s) an entertaining chance to enjoy some more works of a writer whose works are beginning to gain well deserved recognition as classics.