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 finds that the scientist has succeeded in escaping — by switching bodies with him! So he will be executed in his place unless he can not only find the escaped scientist but also solve the many mysteries (…)
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THE 14 VAN VOGT NOVELS ON THIS SITE, in chronological order
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"The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
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"The War Against the Rull" by A. E. van Vogt (1959)
12 June 2018, by A. E. van VogtMankind’s bitter and long-lasting struggle against the very advanced and very redoubtable worm-like Rulls for control of the Milky Way galaxy is told in this composite novel in a series of dramatic episodes, consisting essentially of previously-published golden-age stories [1] modified to fit into the new story line featuring almost exclusively Rulls, to the exclusion of the other form-changing aliens, the Yevds, featured in some of the earlier stories,.
The later 1978 story The First Rull (…) -
"The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
12 April 2018, by A. E. van VogtThe crew of a modern U.S. submarine finds itself suddenly transported 24,999 years into the future where they have been time-transported by one group of engineered mutants (winged men) to blast the stronghold of another group of mutants (fish-men) to smithereens with their torpedoes as a condition for getting re-time-transferred back to their own age.
The trouble is not only that the Earth by this time has been practically destroyed by chemical experiments by uncaring aliens, but that (…) -
"Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt
29 January 2018, by A. E. van VogtIn 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 Century that sends one of theirs, in the form of a 14-year-old-boy, onto the pirate ship with the mission to get their engine repaired back in industrial England. Fletcher is an almost-likeable rebel (…)