The Best of A. E. Van Vogt

by A.E. van Vogt

Contents presented as: Page/Title/Fiction Type/Author 5 - Ah, Careless, Rapturous van Vogt! • essay by Barry N. Malzberg 11 - Introduction (The Best of A. E. van Vogt (US)) • essay by A. E. van Vogt... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671805460
• ISBN13: 9780671805463
• Release Date: June 1976
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A selection that the editor states is supposed to be representative of the development of the author's literary career. Van Vogt says he used to use words in place of others because of their sounds! More wild and whacky stuff here. Best of Van Vogt : DEAR PEN PAL - A. E. Van Vogt Best of Van Vogt : THE GREEN FOREST - A. E. Van Vogt Best of Van Vogt : WAR OF NERVES - A. E. Van Vogt Best of Van Vogt : THE EXPENDABLES - A. E. Van Vogt Best of Van Vogt : SILKIES IN SPACE - A. E. Van Vogt Best of Van Vogt : THE PROXY INTELLIGENCE - A. E. Van Vogt Technological correspondence, long-distance. 3.5 out of 5 We got the best living method, and you, too. 3 out of 5 "How in the name of all the hells can anything live in intergalactic space?" Or, a guul you will be. 3.5 out of 5 You mind not colonising our place? 3.5 out of 5 "As Joanne had put it more than once, There you are with this physically perfect, beautiful male. But all the time youre thinking, This is not really a man. Its a monster that can change in a flash into either a fishlike being or a creature of space. But of course, I wouldnt part with him for anything. They got the Power. 3.5 out of 5 Space vampires? Great Galactics! 3.5 out of 5

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.