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A collection of 6 short stories by van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull, husband-and-wife team. Van Vogt: The Sea Thing (1940) The Witch (1943) The Ghost (1942) E. Mayne Hull: The Wishes We Make (1943) The Ultimate Wish (1943) The Patient (1943)
Also published as . A collection of short stories by van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull, husband-and-wife team. Van Vogt: The Sea Thing (1940) The Witch (1943) The Ghost (1942) E. Mayne Hull: The Wishes We Make (1943) The Ultimate Wish (1943) The Patient (1943)
Collection of short stories. First published in 1952. It contains the following stories: Far Centaurus (1944) The Monster (1948) Dormant (1948) The Enchanted Village (1950) A Can of Paint (1944) Defence (1947) The Rulers (1944) Dear Pen Pal (1949) The Sound (1950) The Search (1943)
Corgi, British paperback, 1970. Collection of stories first published in 1965. Includes an introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman, and these stories: Not Only Dead Men (1942); Final Command (1949); War of Nerves [Space Beagle] (1950); Enchanted Village (1950); Concealment [Mixed Men] (1943); The Sea Thing (1940); Resurrection (1948); Vault of the Beast (1940).
Zebra Books, 2nd printing 1978. Collection of stories first published as "[Science Fiction] Monsters" in 1965. Includes these stories: Not Only Dead Men (1942); Final Command (1949); War of Nerves [Space Beagle] (1950); Enchanted Village (1950); Concealment [Mixed Men] (1943); The Sea Thing (1940); Resurrection (1948); Vault of the Beast (1940).
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Also published as Lost: Fifty Suns. It contains the following stories: The Timed Clock (1972) The Confession (1972) The Rat and the Snake (1971) The Barbarian (1947) Ersatz Eternal (1972) The Sound of Wild Laughter (1972) Lost: Fifty Suns (1952)
'- To avoid confusion: this is NOT a retitling of *Mission To the Stars*. It's a short story collection, the title story of which is the first portion of that novel as it originally appeared in *Astounding*. OK? - The collection was originally published by DAW as *The Book of Van Vogt*. CONTENTS: The Timed Clock The Confession The Rat and the Snake The Barbarian Ersatz Eternal The Sound of Wild Laughter Lost: Fifty Suns
The celebrated author of "The Weapon Shops of Isher", "Slan", and "The Universe Makers" brings to this collection the same unforgettable concepts and the same surprises that have put him among the top names in science fiction. This representative collection of 15 stories portrays van Vogt in all his moods, in every stage of his development from 1937 to 1971. Here, in one volume, are the thought provoking Worlds of A.E. van Vogt.The ReplicatorsThe First MartianThe PurposeThe Earth KillersThe CataaaaaAutomatonItself!ProcessNot the FirstFulfillmentShip of DarknessThe Ultra ManThe StormThe ExpendablesThe Reflected Men
Contents: 5 · Ah, Careless, Rapturous van Vogt! · Barry N. Malzberg · in 11 · Introduction · in 15 · Don’t Hold Your Breath · ss Saving Worlds, ed. Roger Elwood & Virginia Kidd, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973 38 · All We Have on This Planet · ss Stopwatch, ed. George Hay, NEL, 1974 47 · War of Nerves [Beagle] · nv Other Worlds May ’50 72 · The Rull [Rulls] · nv Astounding May ’48 99 · The Semantics of Twenty-First Century Science · ar, 1976 120 · Future Perfect · nv Vertex Aug ’73 146 · Being an Examination of the Ponsian and Holmesian Secret Deductive Systems · ar The Pontine Dossier v1 #2 ’71; speech given at the annual banquet of the Praed Street Irregulars in 1971. 152 · Home of the Gods [Clane] · nv Astounding Apr ’47 178 · The Violent Male · ar, 1976; last of a series of five talks given on radio station KPFK in 1964/65. 192 · Prologue to “The Silkie” [Silkie] · ex If Jul ’64 201 · The Proxy Intelligence [William Leigh] · na If Oct ’68 253 · Final Comment · aw
A scale armored, blood-sucker gryb glinted off the small and gem-like disk of sun, which rose higher and higher from the fantastic horizon of europa, blinding Thomas. The man in front was desperately hard to see against the relentless brilliance, and it seemed as if he was deliberately holding himself in the sun's glare to distract thomas's wearying mind and dull his strength. Had the guide uncovered the real reason for his mission to this alien world? Thomas's mind suddenly ticked coldly with a sense of something repeated; for he knew death from before, during those bold, tremulous years when he had roamed the farthest planets. Originally published as "The Proxy Intelligence and other Mind Benders" in 1971. Kent Johnson writes that the title story of the original collection from 1971 (The Proxy Intelligence) was dropped from later editions, and replaced by Humans, Go Home. The Gryb contains the following stories: The Gryb (1940 as "Repetition") Humans, Go Home (1969) The Problem Professor (1949 as "Project - Spaceship") The Invisibility Gambit (1943 as "Abdication" by E. Mayne Hull) Rebirth: Earth (1942 as "The Flight That Failed" by E. Mayne Hull) The Star-Saint (1951)
Contains the most popular and important stories from van Vogt's wide and varied career.
From the mind of Science Fiction Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, comes five imaginative bizarre tales of the future. The Earth Killers—What if you were blamed for the destruction of the Earth? And what if you were the only one who had the key to what really happened? The Star-Saint—A superman of space is willing to save your colony, but at what cost? The Enchanted Village—As the only survivor of a doomed expedition to Mars, your only chance of survival is to live in a deserted Martian village that is designed for a life that is totally alien to man. Itself!¬—Something is lurking beneath the sea. It is enormous, lethal and very angry! The Expendables—A multi-generational spaceship is about to make landfall. But how is it going to deal with aliens when dealing with the dysfunctional relationships onboard for multi-generations? “Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.”—Philip K. Dick