4. Novels

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• "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 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 (...)

• "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)

  23 June 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This 65,000-word novel was the third publication by van Vogt in as many years on the theme of an on-going conflict between a 4,000-year-old autocratic “Isher” regime, some 7,000 years in the future, and a powerful, scientifically-minded opposition organisation, The Weapon Shops, after the short (...)

• "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel

  16 June 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  Richard Holroyd, a World War II tank captain who has been blown sky-high by a direct hit from a German dive-bomber, wakes up to find himself in the person of a somewhat amnesic semi-god named Ptath in the far, far, far-off world of 200 million A.D., where the continents have changed shape and (...)