Complete Short Fiction by A.E. van Vogt (.ePUB)
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Complete Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2023) by A.E. van Vogt
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Overview: After starting his writing career by writing for “true confession” style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction. This happened after he casually picked up the August 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction from a newsstand, and found the story “Who Goes There?”. The story inspired him to write “Vault of the Beast”, which he sent to the same magazine. It was rejected, but the rejection letter encouraged him to try again. He then sent in a new story called “The Black Destroyer”, which was accepted. A rewritten version of “Vault of the Beast” would be published in 1940.
Van Vogt’s first SF publication was inspired by The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. “The Black Destroyer” was published by John W. Campbell in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939, the centennial year of Darwin’s journal. It featured a fierce, carnivorous alien, the coeurl, stalking the crew of an exploration spaceship. In 1939, he followed up with another space monster story, “Discord in Scarlet” which introduces the readers to Ixtl, the last survivor of a once-great galactic civilization, floating alone in interstellar space. The Weapon Makers and The Book of Ptath were published in 1947.
In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence. Extremely prolific for a few years, van Vogt wrote a large number of short stories. In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or “fixups” as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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