2. A selection of van Vogt stories

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• "The Flight That Failed" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull

  6 July 2022 by A. E. van Vogt

  An aircraft pilot on a critical war-time mission across the Atlantic is suddenly warned by a mysterious passenger that the flight is in mortal danger from enemy warcraft that have been informed of the flight’s secret contents and of its flight plan. The passenger turns out to possess (...)

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

  28 June 2021 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 2021 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 late-period 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 (...)