3. Stories

Articles in this section

• "The Expendables" (1963) - a space-exploration saga by A. E. van Vogt

  9 December 2020 by A. E. van Vogt

  The cover story in the September 1963 issue of IF Science Fiction, this space-adventure novelette (11,400 words) was the first science-fiction story that A. E. van Vogt wrote when he resumed his writing career after having devoted almost fifteen years to "making a study of human behaviour", as (...)

• "Haunted Atoms" (1951) - a rare golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt

  23 March 2020 by A. E. van Vogt

  Five hundred years after a mysterious disaster had destroyed an advanced but now-forgotten civilization, a farmer is killed when digging near a long-abandoned (atomic) powerhouse. His house rapidly acquires a reputation for being haunted and uninhabitable until the farmer’s niece and her (...)

• "The First Rull" (1978) by A. E. van Vogt

  2 September 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  Rulls are deadly enemies of mankind who have sent a team of spies to Earth to recover an anti-gravity raft that the humans have recuperated without (so far) realizing the enormous potential of the superior technology it contains.
  The Rulls are ruthless beings who, although they can and do (...)

• "The Ghost" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt

  22 May 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This rare excursion of van Vogt into the realm of fantasy first appeared in the August 1942 issue of the highly regarded Unknown Worlds bi-monthly magazine.
  This unusual 12,500-word ghost novelette with whodunit and time-conundrum elements, written during van Vogt’s Canadian days when he was (...)

• "The Witch" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt

  21 May 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  One of van Vogt’s few ventures into the fantasy realm – if witch stories can be so described that is, sometimes one wonders –, this solid, nicely-developed novelette about a very old – but not for long if she gets her way with the lovely body of the hero’s wife – and particularly tricky one first (...)