4. Novels

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

  6 February 2018 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

  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.
  Regularly (...)

• "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel

  28 May 2015 by A. E. van Vogt

  First published in four installments 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

  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 galaxy. (...)

• "The Shadow Men" (1950) - an outstanding golden-age sci-fi novel by A. E. van Vogt never before republished

  3 September 2013 by A. E. van Vogt

  This striking novel from the golden age of science-fiction (the nineteen-forties and early fifties) was never republished in either magazine or book form after its initial appearance in the January 1950 issue of Startling Stories, where it was highlighted on the quite spectacular cover by Earle (...)