#ae van vogt

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Vintage Pulp - Super Science Stories (Mar1950)

Popular Publications

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Ubik, Slan and Conrad of the Godhand from Kentaro Miura's Berserk, each pictured with the novel that inspired their name:

Ubik by Philip K. Dick, 1969

Slan by A.E. van Vogt, 1946

This Immortal (first published serialized as "...And Call Me Conrad") by Roger Zelazny, 1966

Void and Femto are not named for sci-fi novels. The artwork of each character is directly from Miura's Berserk.

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Vintage Paperback - Beyond Time And Space by August Derleth

Berkley (c.1950)

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Slan by A.E. van Vogt (1940)

"How mighty the fear must be that prompts so much effort, so much expense, for so little return!" - Jommy Cross

For a peak at the origins of the 'mutant sci-fi' genre, years before X-Men, plus, just a really great sci-fi novel, read Slan... man.

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Slan and the novel her name came from.

Conrad and the novel his name came from.

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Bruce Pennington achieves a fascinating sense of scale in this deceptively simple looking image. Used for the cover of AE Van Vogt's 'Children of Tomorrow'.

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"More Than Superhuman", es una colección de cuentos de ciencia ficción del escritor canadiense-estadounidense AE van Vogt , publicado en 1971.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( 26 de abril de 1912 - 26 de enero de 2000) fue un autor de ciencia ficción estadounidense nacido en Canadá .

Su estilo narrativo fragmentado y extraño influyó en escritores de ciencia ficción posteriores, en particular Philip K. Dick .

Fue uno de los practicantes más populares e influyentes de la ciencia ficción a mediados del siglo XX, la llamada Edad de Oro del género , y una de las más complejas.

Los escritores de ciencia ficción de Estados Unidos lo nombraron su 14º Gran Maestro en 1995 (presentado en 1996).

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Honestly, this is a fitting cover for the story. I love AE van Vogt, but this book has a crazy plot and character behavior.

All mixed up.

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Somewhere Beyond The Sea

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Peter Andrew Jones’ 1975 cover to Rogue Ship, by AE van Vogt

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(1956) … blimps in spaaaace! by James Vaughan

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The craziest book I've ever read. I found out why later.

https://archive.org/details/the-works-of-alexandre-dumas-alexandre-dumas/Old/A.E.%20van%20Vogt/The%20Beast%20%28284%29/The%20Beast%20-%20A.E.%20van%20Vogt/

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Thrift store finds...

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A rather beat up book cover by Bruce Pennington for The Battle of Forever by A. E. van Vogt (1973, New English Library)

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Looking at various D&D inspirations this week. First up, Voyage of the Space Beagle, by A. E. van Vogt. This one is a Timescape edition from 1981, but the book has been kicking around since 1950. It is actually four separate stories revised to form a novel. The story we’re interested in is “Black Destroyer,” which first saw print in the July 1939 issue of Astounding.  

The plot: a weird cat-like creature called the Coeurl has hunted the creatures of its planet to extinction and it is starving to death when a human spaceship lands. The highly intelligent creature starts playing, er, a cat-and-mouse game with the crew, killing them one by one. Its plan is to kill off them, steal the ship and fly back to Earth and a new food supply. Things escalate, the Coeurl builds its own ship but gets outmaneuvered and opts to kill itself rather than give the humans the satisfaction. It…isn’t the greatest story (though Isaac Asimov credited it as starting the Golden Age of Science Fiction, so what do I know?).  

The Coeurl, of course, is a big black cat with a bunch of tentacles sprouting from its shoulders – a clear inspiration for the Displacer Beast in Dungeons & Dragons. The basic plot the story, and van Vogt’s next one “Discord in Scarlet” which is basically the same except the creature in question wants to lay its eggs in the ship, were an inspiration for Alien and proved so close that van Vogy collected $50k from 20th Century Fox in a lawsuit.

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