Alfred Elton van Vogt Books

"That strange machine held the potential for peace in all the planets of the galaxy. Jim Pendrake, who found the machine, was only dimly aware of its incredible powers. But others knew, and in their ruthless efforts they tried to take it from him. When the machine disappeared, the sensible thing to do was to let it go and forget about it. But Jim's personal future now seemed to depend on solving the machine's riddle--and so he began a frantic chase that carried him to a rendezvous with the stars and a showdown with The Beast..."--Pg. [4] of cover.

Turning torture and brainwashing inside out, Ruxton combated his cruel oriental captors with their own subtle techniques. The Violent Man is the startling novel of a man who pitted himself against the brains of a nation, the might of an army, and the demands of two erotic, insatiable women.

Science fiction adventure as an alien spacecraft is frozen in time in earth's 18th Century creating problems for the captain of a pirate ship

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

Gilbert Gosseyn, the null-A genius of the Earth-Venus war, never realized that this interplanetary war was but a borrowed incident in a greater conflict until he was thrust onto the galactic battlefield as a mere pawn. But in picking Gosseyn as "expendable," those cosmic opponents unleashed forces they had never dreamed existed. One was the entrance of a powerful third party in the war. The second was the ability of certain other pawns to foresee the future. Finally, there was the secret of Gosseyn's original purpose - a secret which could decide the fate of the entire galaxy!

Colonel Martin was sent to Diamondia to report on the war between Earth-descended colonists and the guerilla warriors of the inhuman Irsk. Because something was going terribly wrong -- a darkness was setting in, mental confusion was epidemic, and there was evidence of Outside interference. The Darkness was impartial, and Morton's encounters with it were the most disturbing events of his career. For it seemed as if the Outside were deliberately stirring up the planetary pot, mixing minds with minds, and personalities with personalities. But when Morton realized that the only solution might be to find and use the incalculable power of the Lositeen Weapon, he realized also that the decision was too great for any one man -- even for all men together -- to make. A brand new novel from the Slan-man, A. E. van Vogt himself...with all of van Vogt's mind-shaking fireworks and narrative mastery.

Alternative cover editions exist here and here.Stories to thrill and delight you.Here is an author whose name is a sure guarantee of the most exciting and intriguing science fiction writing you can buy. The far ranging imagination of A. E. van Vogt will take you - Thousands of years into the future! Millions of years into the past! Trilions of miles into outer space! - and into other dimensions, galaxies and universes. Here is one of the modern masters of science fiction of whom it can well be said: "van Vogt's formula is grandoise - imaginative, I love it all." -Groff Conklin, Galaxy magazine. It contains the following stories:The Great Engine (1943) The Great Judge (1948) Secret Unattainable (1942) The Harmonizer (1944) The Second Solution (1942) Film Library (1946) Asylum (1942)

"Slan" was Van Vogt's first novel and remains his best known and most influential work. The story of a mutant boy who must flee the persecution of normal humans in order to face his real destiny, it is a story that continues to appeal to science fiction fans of all generations. 256 pp. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Clane, a mutant, returns from exile in an attempt to prevent the post-atomic Empire of Linn from breaking apart

The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic & the coming race of supermen. Grandmaster A.E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous & most influential. It was the 1st major trade SF hardback ever, in 1949, & has been in print in various editions ever since. The entire careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness & Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A, & so it's required reading for anyone who wishes to know the SF classics canon. It's 2650 & Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, of Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of 25,000 electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he's some remarkable abilities & sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot.