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Really the Best!
This collection of Science Fiction Short stories is phenomenal. Each story prods our thinking and is easy to relate with. One ends up appricating this great authors imagination as I felt as if I was living through the wholething. Old But Gold. ... Read more

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12 short stories
Van Vogt's short stories are usually superior to his novels.The dozen here are:
1.The Replicators
2.The First Martian
3.The Purpose
4.The Earth Killers
5.The Cataaaaa
6.Automaton
7.Itself!
8.Process
9.Not the First
10.Fulfillment
11.Ship of Darkness
12.The Ultra Man
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Vintage Van Vogt
I think one might take another look at these van Vogt short stories.I took the advice of an internet site on van Vogt and found these stories to be a fine vintage.They have the strange, hallucinatory power of his best work.
Destination Universe (1952)
Another strong collection from his best years. Notably:
"Far Centaurus" (1944) A vivid, almost hallucinatory tale of suspended animation on a starship
voyage.
"The Monster" (1948) A fine tale of a far future Earth invaded by alien
monsters who evoke specters from the long departed human race.
"Dormant" (1948) The U.S. Navy unwittingly wakes up an alien monster.
"The Enchanted Village" (1950) An ironic Martian adventure of the first man on Mars.
"The Search" (1943) A mystery solved by effortless dream-logic. There is
a hallucinatory quality to this tale which defies description.
It also contains the stories:A Can of Paint, Defense, The Rulers, "Dear Pen Pal" and The Sound.

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