The Independent - London, February 2nd, 2000
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 late 1930s transformed science fiction from tales of whizz-bang galactic pyrotechnics and "crashing suns" into a genre of mood, character, subtlety, psychological development and reasonably sure-footed plotting. In short, the literature of ideas. This was the golden age of the form and all these authors, including Van Vogt, were in fact forced into writin...
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