A. E. van Vogt: The April 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, containing the first appearance of The Wizard of Linn; which eventually appeared in book form from Ace Books in 1962.
Without doubt, A. E. van Vogt was the first great Canadian science-fiction writer. In his heyday he was one of the most popular science-fiction authors in the world and is considered to belong to the so-called golden age of writers in the genre, along...
A. E. van Vogt was recognized as a major science-fiction talent with the publication of his first story, "Black Destroyer," in the July 1939 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction. (It was later to become part of The Voyage of the Space Beagle, 1950.)...
Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the...
A. E. VAN VOGT was one of the last survivors of a coterie of young, or youngish, writers - Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, L. Sprague de Camp, the Britisher Eric Frank Russell, Clifford Simak and L. Ron Hubbard - who in the...
"He felt a keen excitement attracting vibrant minds and turning them to the pursuit of a higher human purpose." IF A.E. VAN VOGT had written a story of his own life, he would perhaps have started with this line. In a sense, it...
