We are in California in a coastal town in the late forties, and a hard-working young lawyer (and ex-Marine) hears screams somewhere in the building as he is leaving his office around midnight. Rushing upstairs to deal vigorously with the problem, he gets rapidly involved with a group of cultists, with the powers that control the city, with the multi-millionaire whose ancient house overlooking the Pacific is at the centre of all of the many dramas in the story, with a series of murders, with (…)
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THE 14 VAN VOGT NOVELS ON THIS SITE, in chronological order
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"The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
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"The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
2 November 2019, by A. E. van VogtIf there is one "golden-age" science-fiction novel that has passed the most demanding literary test of all – the test of time – with flying colours, it is this brilliant account of the exciting – and thought-provoking – adventures of mankind’s first voyage of exploration outside of his own galaxy.
The eponymous space vessel was named in honour of The Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin and his fellow scientists on the five-year journey of scientific investigation that led to the (…) -
"The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt – the “fix-up” novel
7 June 2019, by A. E. van VogtThis 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 them against encroachments on their liberties by a totalitarian government.
It was the last of the author’s several accounts of the conflict between the four-thousand-year old Isher dynasty and the (…) -
"The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt
27 January 2019, by A. E. van VogtThe 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 versions of the stories Concealment (1943), The Storm (1943) and The Mixed Men (1945), with a considerable amount of additional text — 8 of its 24 chapters were entirely new — this is a wide-ranging and (…) -
"The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt
17 July 2018, by A. E. van VogtWe 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 he comes back the following year he’s unexpectedly confronted with another young woman whose photos prove his incvolvement in the tragic death of the first and very fleeting acquaintance. Then he’s (…)
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"The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
13 July 2018, by A. E. van VogtA 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 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 (…)