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The Best of A. E. Van Vogt
Published in Paperback by Pocket Books (1976)
Author: Alfred Elton Van Vogt
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Really the Best!
This collection of Science Fiction Short stories is phenomenal. Each story prods our thinking and is easy to relate with. One ends up appricating this great authors imagination as I felt as if I was living through the whole thing. Old But Gold.


The Players of Null-A (Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)
Published in Textbook Binding by G K Hall & Co (1977)
Author: Alfred Elton Van Vogt
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A dumb little book that could change your life.
The novel itself didn't impress me that much as a work of fiction -- although it's been a bestseller for years, and has won some science fiction awards. It's certainly entertaining enough, but it doesn't rank with Heinlein or Asimov, for instance. I read it againrecently, and I still found it kind of simplistic and naive -- very much a product of the 1940's, when it was written. On the otherhand, the 'real' subject of this book is not the protagonist, or the plot: it's a discipline called General Semantics. Gilbert Gosseyn ("Go Sane" -- get it?) has mastered this deceptively simple-seeming, but very complex discipline. As a result, he's able to deal with some pretty daunting challenges, and (well, of course) win out in the end. I discovered this book years ago, and after reading it, I began to wonder if "General Semantics" was 'real'. I did some investigating. Turned out it was, indeed, real. I studied the stuff, and have continued to study and apply it, for years. I can't transport myself across the universe like old Gilbert, -- but I sure owe van Vogt a debt for having put me in touch with gs.

Continuation and expension of the story of Goseyne.
Wonderfull , wonderfull book , with more entriges thrown in , enemies revealed , and the true story is begining to take form.

Writen in the masterly style of that author's-god , that if you don't know by now , you will-and admire.

Van-Vogt let's us know at the end (an excellent one) of the real origin of Gilbert Goseyne. This book is , by the way , the sequel of "A World OF Null-A".

Excellent book , I can't say enaugh about it.


Reflections of A. E. Van Vogt: The Autobiography of a Science Fiction Giant: With a Complete Bibliography.
Published in Paperback by Fictioneer Books (1979)
Author: Alfred Elton, Van Vogt
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The Universe Maker
Published in Paperback by Pocket Books (1982)
Author: Alfred Elton Van Vogt
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