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Alfred Elton van Vogt (1912-2000) was a prolific Canadian science fiction author.


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The World of Null-A

By A. E. van Vogt

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The World of Null-A
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Grandmaster A. E. Van Vogt was one of the giants of the Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is most famous and most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, published in 1949, and has been in print in various editions ever since. The careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A. It is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics.

The Voyage of the Space Beagle

By A. E. van Vogt

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One of the great original classics of modern SF returns!

An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of Golden Age SF, an influence on generations of stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. This is one of the most entertaining and gripping stories in all of classic SF.

Slan: A Novel

By A. E. Van Vogt

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Released: 2007-06-26
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Slan: A Novel
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In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as Isaac Asimov in New York, Robert A. Heinlein in California, and A.E. van Vogt in Canada, whose novel Slan was one of the basic works of the era. Throughout the forties and into the fifties Slan was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Many SF fans rallied to the cry, "Fans are slans."

Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas. And maybe fans really are slans. Read it and see for yourself.

Transfinite: The Essential A. E. Van Vogt

By A. E. Van Vogt

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Transfinite: The Essential A. E. Van Vogt
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Contains the most popular and important stories from van Vogt's wide and varied career.

The Empire of Isher: The Weapon Makers / The Weapon Shops of Isher

By A. E. van Vogt

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The Empire of Isher: The Weapon Makers / The Weapon Shops of Isher
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Two classic Van Vogt works, The Weapon Makers and The Weapon Shops of Isher form the complete story of Robert Hedrock and the Empire of Isher. They are about revolution through time travel, the right to bear arms, the end of the universe and the beginning of the next.

THE BEAST

By Van Vogt A E

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THE BEAST
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Book NO. 60-169, approx. 4 1/4" x 7".

The Voyage of the Space Beagle

By A. E. van Vogt and Bruce Jensen

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The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of golden age SF, an influence on generations of stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. The crew encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. This is one of the most entertaining and gripping stories in all of classic science fiction.

"Nobody, possibly with the exception of [Alfred] Bester of The Stars My Destination, ever came close to matching van Vogt for headlong, breakneck pacing, or for the electric, crackling paranoid tension with which he was capable of suffusing his work." -- Gardner Dozois

The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950) is a classic novel of science fiction by A. E. van Vogt in the space opera subgenre. The novel is a "fix-up" compilation of four previously published SF stories: "Black Destroyer" (appeared in the July, 1939, issue of Astounding magazine—the first published SF by A. E. Van Vogt) (chapters 1 to 6); "War of Nerves" (May, 1950, Other Worlds magazine) (chapters 9 to 12); "Discord in Scarlet" (December, 1939, Astounding magazine—the second published SF by A. E. Van Vogt) (chapters 13 to 21); "M33 in Andromeda" (August, 1943, Astounding magazine, later published as a story in the book M33 in Andromeda (1971)) (chapters 22 to 28). The book was republished in 1952 under the title Mission: Interplanetary.

This is an exclusive 2009 hardcover reprint by the Science Fiction Book Club, #1258306, of an Orb trade paperback published in 2008 by Tom Doherty Associates. 

Null -A Three

By A. E. Van Vogt

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Null -A Three
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The Players of Null-A

By A. E. Van Vogt

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In this sequel to World of Null-A, Gilbert Gosseyn must learn to use both hisbrains and function in various bodies in order to save the universe from Enrothe Red.

The Empire of Isher (The Weapon Makers and The Weapon Shops of Isher)

By A. E. Van Vogt

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This book binds together two of van Vogt's better stories, "The Weapon Makers of Isher" and "The Weapons Shops of Isher," published in sequel-prequel order back in 1946 and 1951. These time-hopping, politically convoluted tales follow the struggle between the oppressive (but beautiful) Empress Innelda and the superadvanced libertarian Weapon Shops ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free," reads the storefront sign). Much of the melodramatic plot revolves around the Shops' immortal, ultragenius founder Robert Hedrock, his conflict with the Empress, and their differing visions for the future of humanity, but don't fret too much over the details: van Vogt keeps your head comfortably a-swim in a steady stream of whiz-bang gadgetry, plot twists, and breakneck action. --Paul Hughes About the Author A. E. Van Vogt was a SFWA Grand Master. He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1944, by which time he was well-established as one of John W. Campbell's stable of writers for Astounding Science-Fiction. He lived in Los Angeles, California and died in 2000.

 
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