The crew of a modern U.S. submarine finds itself suddenly transported 24,999 years into the future where they have been time-transported by one group of engineered mutants (winged men) to blast the stronghold of another group of mutants (fish-men) to smithereens with their torpedoes as a condition for getting re-time-transferred back to their own age.
The trouble is not only that the Earth by this time has been practically destroyed by chemical experiments by uncaring aliens, but that (…)
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"The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
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7 avril 2018, par A. E. van VogtThis dramatic tale of a struggle in a remote valley between a group of cowherds and a professional killer bent on stealing their cattle – and killing them all in the process – was only ever previously published in the February 1951 issue of the “pulp-western” magazine Famous Western.
It was A. E. van Vogt’s only foray into the vastly popular – at the time – world of the western, and a very successful one at that. Told from the “other’s” (the bad guy’s) point of view, a van Vogt technique (…) -
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1er avril 2018, par Jack London and Charles GoddardAs Jack London recounts in the interesting foreword to this unusual book, not only was he incapable of writing a successful film script, but “because a man had written a score of novels was no guarantee that he could write a good scenario. Quite to the contrary, it was quickly discovered that the surest guarantee of failure was a previous record of success in novel-writing.” And on the other hand, successful scriptwriters such as Charles Goddard, the co-author of this action novel with (…)
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"The Perfect Day" by A. E. van Vogt (1981) - never before published in English
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That night Lee decides to go for it : to go back to the day of what was for him his perfect (…) -
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), translated by Edward Fitzgerald
7 mars 2018, par Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzgeraldIn early 1859 the English erudite Edward Fitzgerald, a retired Cambridge graduate with independent means, published anonymously his translation of selected stanzas of the 12-Century Persian poem “The Rubaiyat” by Omar Khayyam, who ”was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century.”
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"Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt
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The Silkie Stories by A. E. van Vogt (1964-1967)
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"The Little Lady of the Big House" by Jack London (1916)
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