2. Stories

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• More of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories

  28 June by A. E. van Vogt

  1. RESEARCH ALPHA (1965) A ruthless doctor in a research lab secretly tries out his new serum for accelerating evolutionary development on two unsuspecting office workers, with variable but amazing results, astounding even the superiorly-intelligent aliens who are monitoring the lab’s results — (...)

• Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories: "Itself" (1963), "Lost: Fifty Suns" (1972) and "The Timed Clock" (1972)

  25 February by A. E. van Vogt

  1. ITSELF! (1963) A militarised surveillance robot in the depths of the Pacific discovers an alien warship lurking in its vicinity and reacts violently to their presence. (1,000 words)
  2. LOST: FIFTY SUNS (1972) A gigantic Earth battleship has appeared in the Greater Magellanic Cloud galaxy to (...)

• The Expendables and other stories by A. E. van Vogt

  9 December 2020 by A. E. van Vogt

  1. THE EXPENDABLES (1963) A spaceship on an exploration mission encounters crafty and powerful aliens who threaten to take over after they are brought on board – and a ferocious struggle breaks out in parallel among the ship’s leading officers for control of the ship. . (11,400 words)
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• The Ghost and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt

  22 May 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  1. THE GHOST (1942) An unusual ghost story with whodunit and time-conundrum elements, written during van Vogt’s Canadian days (van Vogt emigrated from Toronto to Los Angeles two years later, in 1944.) (12,500 words)
  2. THE WITCH (1943) A young teacher comes to the seaside town where his (...)

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

  7 April 2018 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. (...)