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The sequel to A. E. van Vogt's "Slan," one of the most famous SF
novels of the twentieth century!
This startling SF adventure novel is a collaboration between the
classic SF Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, and contemporary master
Kevin J. Anderson. At the time of his death in 2000, van Vogt left
a partial draft and an outline for the sequel to his most famous
novel, "Slan." Van Vogt's jam-packed, one-damn-thingafter-another
storytelling technique makes his active plots compulsively
readable. Now the story has been completed by Anderson, and is sure
to be one of the most popular SF novels of the year.
Slans are a race of superior mutants in the far future, smarter and
stronger than Homo sapiens and able to read minds. Yet they are a
persecuted minority, survivors of terrible genocidal wars, who live
in hiding from the mass of humanity. "Slan Hunter" tells of this
towering conflict in the far future, when a new war among the races
of mankind bursts out, and humanity--all types of
humanity--struggles to survive. The heroic Jommy Cross of Slan is
once again called upon to save the human race.
The complete pulp... reprinted for the first time This historic
first issue included material by Ray Cummings and A.E. Van Vogt but
also a comic book section featuring stories by Gardner F. Fox, Joe
Kubert and John Giunta.
The newly expanded version of this classic offers replete with even
more stories from Forrest J Ackerman and his talented friends and
collaborators. Joining such notables as Theodore Sturgeon and A. E.
van Vogt are classic authors Catherine L. Moore, Donald A.
Wollheim, and more.
One of the great original classics of modern SF returns!
An all-time classic space saga, "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" is
one of the pinnacles of Golden Age SF, an influence on generations
of stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative
ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into
the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They
encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who
lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from
within when they hatch. This is one of the most entertaining and
gripping stories in all of classic SF.
The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and 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 and most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print in various editions ever since. The entire careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A, and so it is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics.
It is the year 2650 and Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, or Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he has some remarkable abilities and sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot.
In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as Isaac Asimov in New York, Robert A. Heinlein in California, and A.E. van Vogt in Canada, whose novel Slan was one of the basic works of the era. Throughout the forties and into the fifties Slan was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Many SF fans rallied to the cry, "Fans are slans."
Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas. And maybe fans really are slans. Read it and see for yourself.
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