4. Novels

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• "Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt

  29 August by A. E. van Vogt

  In 1704 the English nobleman-turned-pirate Nathan Fletcher is en route to a planned assault on a British merchant ship in the Caribbean when one of the men spots a very strange unidentified object falling from the sky on the horizon. This turns out to be a disabled spaceship from the 83rd (...)

• "The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt

  17 July by A. E. van Vogt

  We are in 1953 and Lieutenant Morton Cargill is on leave from the Korean War when he stumbles into a young woman who is also leaving the dive he has been binge-leavng in. The next thing he knows is that he’s running away from a car crash that the young acquaintance hasn’t survived. However, when (...)

• "The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt

  13 April by A. E. van Vogt

  A brilliant scientist has been condemned to death for suggesting that the collectivist social system of the government that’s on the verge of taking over control of the entire world needs to be seriously called into question, and when his close friend comes to deliver the verdict to him he (...)

• "The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt

  27 January by A. E. van Vogt

  The inhabitants of the 70 inhabited planets of the Fifty Suns civilisation in the Greater Magellanic Cloud galaxy are up against a gigantic invading warship from Earth bent on finding them out and integrating them into their empire that rules the Milky Way galaxy.
  Based on somewhat modified (...)

• "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt – the “fix-up” novel

  7 January 2020 by A. E. van Vogt

  This was one of the van Vogt’s most famous golden-age novels with its iconic slogan “The Right To Buy Weapons Is The Right To Be Free” and its theme of a secret and scientifically-advanced organisation providing superior defensive weapons to citizens of a far-off future civilization to protect (...)