The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt

These three linked golden-age stories pursue the theme of man’s expansion beyond the Milky Way Galaxy explored in van Vogt’s initial and iconic Black Destroyer (1939) tale.

From a completely different but just about as interesting perspective: the discovery by a gigantic Earth exploration spaceship of a race of super-evolved men that had escaped from Earth’s domination of the entire Milky Way galaxy into the nearby Lesser Magellanic Cloud galaxy some thousands of years earlier.

These stories were later rewritten and regrouped, with new linkage materials, into the "fix-up" novel The Mixed Men (1952).

Here you have the original versions of these three action-packed, inventive and rather well-written stories with a space-opera tinge, complete with the very fine original Astounding artwork by Fax, Orban and Timmins.

An e-book is available for downloading below.

The Mixed Men stories (e-book)