van Vogt novels

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• "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt

  4 March by A. E. van Vogt

  We are in California in a coastal town in the late forties, and a hard-working young lawyer (and ex-Marine) hears screams somewhere in the building as he is leaving his office around midnight. Rushing upstairs to deal vigorously with the problem, he gets rapidly involved with a group of (...)

• "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt

  6 February by A. E. van Vogt

  This major 76,000-word work, first published in the October-November-December 1948 and January 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction as The Players of Ā, is the direct sequel to his renowned 1945 opus The World of Null-A.
  It has all the key players of the first episode – the Null-A (...)

• "The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt - the full text

  2 June 2015 by A. E. van Vogt

  First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious blockbuster novel set in 2580 A.D. was A. E. van Vogt’s fourth major novel in that glorious heyday-decade of science fiction, the golden forties.
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• "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel (the complete text)

  28 May 2015 by A. E. van Vogt

  First published in four instalments in the September-December 1940 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this smoothly-written and ambitious first novel with its action-oriented, science-minded, Big-Ideas-About-The-Evolutionary-Future-of-Humanity theme, its dramatic story line involving an (...)

• "The Voyage of The Space Beagle (1950)" by A. E. van Vogt - the complete text of this great science-fiction writer’s best novel

  2 April 2015 by A. E. van Vogt

  If there is one "golden-age" science-fiction novel that has passed the most demanding literary test of all - the test of time – with flying colours, it is this brilliant account of the exciting - and thought-provoking - adventures of mankind’s first voyage of exploration outside of his own (...)