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)
2. THE REPLICATORS (1965) Steve Matlin is a particularly ornery farmer who comes across a very big alien monster on a back road near his farm, and as he was out on a hunting expedition he shot the thing. So (...)
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THE 83 VAN VOGT STORIES ON THIS SITE
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"The Expendables" and other late-period stories by A. E. van Vogt
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"The Ghost" and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt
22 May 2018, by A. E. van Vogt1. 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 great-grandmother was supposed buried, only to find the lady in good health although apparently capable of being in two places at the same time. The more he observes her, the more he begins to understand (...) -
"Ride In, Killer!" - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt (1951)
7 April 2018, by A. E. van VogtThis 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. van Vogt’s only foray into the vastly popular – at the time – world of the western, and a very successful one at that. Told from the “other’s” (the bad guy’s) point of view, a van Vogt technique (...) -
"The Perfect Day" by A. E. van Vogt (1981) - never before published in English
19 March 2018, by A. E. van VogtLee Baines is a solitary bachelor who spends his evenings alone before the TV set feeling cynical about the world in general and TV programs in particular. And one night he sees a university professor talking about his new time-traveling machine and asking for volunteers who, unlike the mice he has been using so far for his experiments, could come back and report on the result of his experiments.
That night Lee decides to go for it: to go back to the day of what was for him his perfect (...) -
The Silkie Stories by A. E. van Vogt (1964-1967)
4 January 2018, by A. E. van VogtAfter more than a decade of absence from the science-fiction field in the fifties and early sixties, A. E. van Vogt started writing science fiction again in the sixties, after the not particularly successful publication of a mainstream political novel, The Violent Man, in 1962.
In these three inter-linked novellas with a strong cosmological bent, he developed one of his favourite themes, the potential long-term future evolution of humans into a higher and more intelligent (and better?) (...) -
"The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
28 May 2017, by A. E. van VogtThis long, well-developed novella, revisiting the saga of the mysterious "Weapon Shops" organization that acts as a check-and balance on the powers of the world-dominant Isher dynasty some 7000 years in the future, was first published as the cover story of the February 1949 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
It has never before been republished!.
That state of affairs is perhaps due in part to its considerable length (33,000 words), and perhaps more for commercial reasons, as van Vogt (...) -
"The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt (1942)
17 May 2017, by A. E. van VogtOne of van Vogt’s iconic stories, this theme of a mysterious "Weapon Shop" organization, subtly fighting to oppose by advanced technological, ideological and organisational means the overreaching tyranny of a populist-style family dictatorship, provided the central theme to a number of works by van Vogt during the forties and early fifties.
This series of stories and novels, all placed 7,000 years in the future and all featuring a vast network of technologically-advanced semi-underground (...) -
"War of Nerves" by A. E. van Vogt (1950)
1 March 2017, by A. E. van VogtWar of Nerves was first published in the May 1950 issue of the magazine Other Worlds Science Stories, only a month or two – according to a comment in the editorial column of that issue – before the publication of van Vogt’s epic novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle, of which it became a part.
This was the fourth van Vogt story about the adventures of the scientific exploration spaceship The Space Beagle (named in honour of Charles Darwin’s ship of exploration of then-undiscovered areas (...) -
"M33 in Andromeda" by A. E. van Vogt (1943)
2 February 2017, by A. E. van VogtM33 in Andromeda, first published in the August 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, was the third of van Vogt’s great series of stories, after Black Destroyer and Discord in Scarlet, about the adventures of the spaceship The Space Beagle on man’s first trip of scientific discovery outside of his own Milky Way galaxy.
Quite up to the remarkable level of those other two famous stories, it became a key part of van Vogt’s masterful novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950), albeit (...) -
"Discord in Scarlet" by A. E. van Vogt (1939)
23 December 2016, by A. E. van VogtThis is the dramatic story of the struggle for survival of the inter-galactic exploration ship The Space Beagle, after having being invaded by an incredibly powerful alien being – a narrative familiar to viewers of Ridley Scott’s 1981 masterpiece Alien, which was largely based on this story.
First published in the December 1939 issue of the Astounding Science Fiction magazine, Discord in Scarlet is the direct sequel of van Vogt’s equally dramatic novella Black Destroyer that had (...)