Van Vogt's attack on Aristotelianism dominates every part of The World of Null-A; its grand vision unifies the novel. Even so, the novel contains several of van Vogt's favorite motifs.
The World of Null-A has the unifying philosophy that Slan lacks, but it echoes Slan's concerns with morality, the tragedy of life, and the question of what constitutes a normal life. The followers of Null-A struggle toward an ill-defined moral life, but even Gosseyn learns to kill ruthlessly; he unhesitatingly kills two guards: "The guards were symbols, he decided bleakly, symbols of destruction." By calling the guards symbols, he refutes what they really.....
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