The biggest challenge van Vogt faces in Quest for the Future is making Caxton's clumsiness and selfishness central to the novel's plot. He meets the challenge by making the mysterious Palace of Immortality in the "fold" in time something that had to be built by a paranoid character. The time travelers who inhabit the Palace do not know who built it and lack the motivation to be the ones who did. They lack ambition because they are contented people.
Only someone with Caxton's single-minded ambition, born.....
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