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"The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
Thursday 12 April 2018, by
The crew of a modern U.S. submarine finds itself suddenly transported 24,999 years into the future where they have been time-transported by one group of engineered mutants (winged men) to blast the stronghold of another group of mutants (fish-men) to smithereens with their torpedoes as a condition for getting re-time-transferred back to their own age.
The trouble is not only that the Earth by this time has been practically destroyed by chemical experiments by uncaring aliens, but that other ships have also been brought back from other ages as well as the aliens who caused the ecological disaster in the first place, all more advanced technologically than the Yankees.
The original 1944 novella on which this novel was based was written by E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt’s wife) [1], and it was extensively modified and extended in 1966 by van Vogt for this novel version.
(46,000 words)
An e-book of this very readable time-travel adventure novel is available for downloading below.
The Winged Man (e-book)
[1] there’s a school of thought that E. Mayne Hull’s works, which were all published in the 1940s in Astounding Science Fiction, were actually written by van Vogt, who used his wife’s name as a pen-name to enable him to publish more than one story in the same issue of a magazine. This was a fairly common practice at the time, that had been used notably by Astounding’s editor John Campbell during his writing career.
Van Vogt, however, never confirmed this hypothesis.