A. E. van Vogt

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt
	Van Vogt in 1981
Born	Alfred Vogt; April 26, 1912; Edenburg, near Gretna, Manitoba, Canada
Died	January 26, 2000 (aged 87); Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1939–1986 (science fiction)
Genre	Science fiction
Literary movement	Golden Age of Science Fiction
Spouse	Edna Mayne Hull (1939–1975); Lydia Bereginsky (1979–2000) (his death);
Signature

Alfred Elton van Vogt (/væn voʊt/; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. He was one of the most popular science fiction writers in the mid-twentieth century.^[1]

Death

Van Vogt died at his home in Los Angeles on January 26, 2000 from Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.

Novels

Year	Title	Series	Notes	Alternate titles
1946	Slan		Originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, September – December 1940.
1947	The Weapon Makers	Isher	Significantly revised version of a novel originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, February – April 1943. Revised again in 1952.	One Against Eternity (1964)
1947	The Book of Ptath		Originally appeared (complete) in Unknown, October 1943.	Two Hundred Million A.D. (1964) Ptath (1976)
1948	The World of Ā	Null-A	Revised and shortened version of a novel originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, August – October 1945. Revised again in 1970.	The World of Null-A (all editions from 1953 forward)
1950	The House That Stood Still			The Mating Cry (1960, revised) The Undercover Aliens (1976)
1950	The Voyage of the Space Beagle		Fix-up of four short stories, originally published 1939 – 1950.	Mission: Interplanetary (1952)
1951	The Weapon Shops of Isher	Isher	Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1941 – 1949.
1952	The Mixed Men		Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1945.	Mission to the Stars (1955)
1953	The Universe Maker		Extensively rewritten and expanded version of the short story "The Shadow Men" (1950).
1954	The Pawns of Null-A	Null-A	Originally serialized (as The Players of Ā) in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1948 – January 1949.	The Players of Null-A (1966)
1957	The Mind Cage		Extensively rewritten and expanded version of the short story "The Great Judge" (1948].
1957	Empire of the Atom	Gods	Fix-up of five short stories, originally published 1946 – 1947.
1959	Siege of the Unseen		Originally serialized (as The Chronicler) in Astounding Science Fiction, October – November 1946.	The Three Eyes of Evil (1973)
1959	The War Against the Rull		Fix-up of six short stories, originally published 1940 – 1950.
1960	Earth's Last Fortress		Novella, originally appeared (complete, as "Recruiting Station") in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942.	Anthologized as "Masters Of Time" in the van Vogt collection Masters Of Time (1950).
1962	The Wizard of Linn	Gods	Originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, April – June 1950.
1962	The Violent Man		Non-sf; a political thriller.
1963	The Beast		Substantially revised fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1944.	Moonbeast (1969)
1965	Rogue Ship		Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1947 – 1963.
1966	The Winged Man (with E. Mayne Hull)		Originally serialized (and credited solely to E. Mayne Hull) in Astounding Science Fiction, May – June 1944. Greatly expanded (from 35,000 to 60,000 words) by van Vogt for book publication.
1967	The Changeling		Novella, originally appeared (complete) in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1944. Previously anthologized in the van Vogt collection Masters Of Time (1950).
1969	The Silkie		Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1964 – 1967.
1970	Children of Tomorrow
1970	Quest for the Future		Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1946.
1971	The Battle of Forever
1972	The Darkness on Diamondia
1973	Future Glitter			Tyranopolis (1977)
1974	The Man with a Thousand Names
1974	The Secret Galactics			Earth Factor X (1976)
1977	Supermind		Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1942 – 1968. The 1965 story "Research Alpha", minimally revised to form chapters 23-36 of this novel, was credited on original publication to van Vogt and James H. Schmitz.
1977	The Anarchistic Colossus
1979	Renaissance
1979	Cosmic Encounter
1983	Computerworld			Computer Eye (1985)
1984	Null-A Three	Null-A
1985	To Conquer Kiber		Unpublished in English. Published in French as A la conquête de Kiber and in Romanian as Cucerirea Kiberului^[2]

References

↑ "Although [van Vogt] catered for the pulps, he intensified the emotional impact and complexity of the stories they would bear". Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter, eds. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 1268. ISBN 978-0-312-13486-0.
↑ Dubé, Denis. "Plot Summary: To Conquer Kiber by A.E. van Vogt". Sevagram. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

Other websites

Sevagram, the A.E. van Vogt information site
Obituary at LocusOnline (Locus Publications)
"Writers: A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000, Canada)" Archived 2015-04-24 at the Wayback Machine – bibliography at SciFan
A. E. van Vogt Papers (MS 322) at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

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[1] "Although [van Vogt] catered for the pulps, he intensified the emotional impact and complexity of the stories they would bear". Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter, eds. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 1268. ISBN 978-0-312-13486-0.

[2] Dubé, Denis. "Plot Summary: To Conquer Kiber by A.E. van Vogt". Sevagram. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

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