van Vogt novelettes and novellas

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• "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt

  7 April by A. E. van Vogt

  This dramatic tale of a struggle in a remote valley between a group of cowherds and a professional killer bent on stealing their cattle – and killing them all in the process – was only ever previously published in the February 1951 issue of the “pulp-western” magazine Famous Western.
  It was A. E. (...)

• "The Proxy Intelligence" (1968) by A. E. van Vogt

  5 March by A. E. van Vogt

  The Proxy Intelligence, first published in the October 1968 issue of the WORLDS OF IF SCIENCE FICTION magazine, is the sequel to the excellent golden-age story Asylum, which was first published in 1942 and which can be seen elsewhere on this site.
  In Asylum we followed the adventures of an (...)

• "Rogue Ship" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt

  3 January by A. E. van Vogt

  This rousing space-opera extravaganza starts off with a bang when the very wealthy and scientifically-minded hero learns that the spaceship that he had built to ship a colony to the far-away Alpha Centauri star system six years ago – to escape a forthcoming nova-explosion of the sun which only (...)

• "The Ultra Man" (1966) by A. E. van Vogt

  13 November 2017 by A. E. van Vogt

  On a large and very cosmopolitan United Nations space-station on the moon, a gifted psychologist is explaining to a colleague what people way down on the street below are thinking and saying just by studying the expressions on their faces through field-glasses, when all of a sudden he declares (...)

• "The Star-Saint" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt

  12 November 2017 by A. E. van Vogt

  A shipload of colonists is about to land on the far-away and beautiful planet of Ariel when their captain announces that they will be left there on their own – he has to rush off because time is money – to investigate just what happened to the previous 1000-strong colony there which has been (...)