2. Anthologies

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• Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories: "Itself" (1963), "Lost: Fifty Suns" (1972) and "The Timed Clock" (1972)

  25 February by A. E. van Vogt

  1. ITSELF! (1963) A militarised surveillance robot in the depths of the Pacific discovers an alien warship lurking in its vicinity and reacts violently to their presence. (1,000 words)
  2. LOST: FIFTY SUNS (1972) A gigantic Earth battleship has appeared in the Greater Magellanic Cloud galaxy to (...)

• The Silkie Stories (1964-1967) by A. E. van Vogt

  4 January 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  THE SILKIE STORIES
  After 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 (...)

• The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt

  20 December 2016 by A. E. van Vogt

  These three linked golden-age stories pursue the theme of man’s expansion beyond the Milky Way Galaxy explored in van Vogt’s initial and iconic Black Destroyer (1939) tale.
  From a completely different but just about as interesting perspective: the discovery by a gigantic Earth exploration (...)

• Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt

  31 January 2016 by A. E. van Vogt

  These fifteen stories are all fine examples of this great writer’s best work from his most creative period - the forties and early fifties, the "golden age" of science-fiction.
  All of the stories published here are the original magazine versions, with the magazine artwork and cover for each (...)

• "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology

  16 October 2015 by A. E. van Vogt

  This outstanding collection of nine of van Vogt’s best golden-age science-fiction stories was published in 1952, as a sort of companion volume to Destination Universe, his first short-story anthology published earlier that same year.
  Curiously, almost all editions of Away and Beyond printed (...)