4. A. E. van Vogt’s best novels

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• "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A. E. van Vogt - the novel (1951)

  7 January by A. E. van Vogt

  This was one of the van Vogt’s most famous golden-age novels with its iconic slogan “The Right To Buy Weapons Is The Right To Be Free” and its theme of a secret and scientifically-advanced organisation providing superior defensive weapons to citizens of a far-off future civilization to protect (...)

• "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)

  23 June 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This long 65,000-word novel was the third publication by van Vogt in as many years on the theme of an on-going conflict between a 4000-year-old autocratic “Isher” regime, some 7,000 years in the future, and a powerful, scientifically-minded opposition organisation, The Weapon Shops, after the (...)

• "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel

  16 June 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  Richard Holroyd, a World War II tank captain who has been blown sky-high by a direct hit from a German dive-bomber, wakes up to find himself in the person of a somewhat amnesic semi-god named Ptath in the far, far, far-off world of 200 million A.D., where the continents have changed shape and (...)

• "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt

  4 March 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  We are in California in a coastal town in the late forties, and a hard-working young lawyer (and ex-Marine) hears screams somewhere in the building as he is leaving his office around midnight. Rushing upstairs to deal vigorously with the problem, he gets rapidly involved with a group of (...)

• "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt

  6 February 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This major 76,000-word work, first published in the October-November-December 1948 and January 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction as The Players of Ā, is the direct sequel to his renowned 1945 opus The World of Null-A.
  It has all the key players of the first episode – the Null-A (...)