AE Van Vogt

[dask]

Impressive and useful for sure. Note to Donald Tuck: There's a new kid in town.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I've compiled what I hope is a useful list of all van Vogt's English-language science fiction/fantasy books with a lot of information (including what's in the various fixups and collections) packed in a single page:

Bibliography: A. E. van Vogt

If it's not useful, this can at least serve to maybe resurrect the thread.

May well be very useful. Thank you. I have a lot of van V's books but the thing I would REALLY like to get hold of a copy of is a screenplay he (co)wrote for the sequel to that masterpiece of trash moviemaking Starcrash

Co-written in 1977 with SciFi novelist, A.E. Van Vogt, STAR RIDERS would never make its way to the Silver Screen, at least not in the form envisioned by its creator. It did survive in the written form, though; the novel version of Star Riders would surface several years later in 1986 in Italy as I cavalieri delle stelle (The Knights of the Stars).

Was this ever translated?

The Haunted Stars....

 

[hitmouse]

I missed this one the first time round.

 

[J-Sun]

Impressive and useful for sure. Note to Donald Tuck: There's a new kid in town.

Thanks! Good to hear. As far as Tuck, though, those guys really worked - I just sort of selected and presented.

Was this ever translated?

Interesting articles, but nope, that's never appeared in English. There's another case sort of related to that, in that van Vogt wrote a story, another Italian author expanded it, he sent a translated version to van Vogt, van Vogt tweaked it, and it was published as a collaboration (in French and German!) but has also never been actually published in English. The real bibliography of Storysource covers these.

I missed this one the first time round.

Me, too! Thanks for pointing it out and I'll update the bibliography soon.

 

[BAYLOR]

I missed this one the first time round.

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I loved this book.

 

[BAYLOR]

Destination Universe

 

[BAYLOR]

Destination Universe

I Seems to have repeated myself again.

My favorite short story by him Is sometimes its under a different title Resurrection. This is story twould been a great choice forefather The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.

 

[BAYLOR]

Damon Knight basically shredded Van Vogt in the sixties, quote:

"In a series of reviews for various magazines, he became famous as a science fiction critic, a career which began when he wrote in 1945 that Van Vogt, ...is not a giant as often maintained. He's only a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter. After nine years, he ceased reviewing when a magazine refused to publish one review exactly as he wrote it."

URL: Damon Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Funnily enough I re-read Van Vogt, but can't remember the last time I read Damon Knight.

A E Van Vogt is better remembered in science fiction then is Damon Knight .

 

[psikeyhackr]

Damon Knight basically shredded Van Vogt in the sixties,

I remember Damon Knight as an SF writer but his only title I remember is Hell's Pavement. I liked it at the time.

I will have to look at his bibliography to see what else I might recall.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I remember Damon Knight as an SF writer but his only title I remember is Hell's Pavement. I liked it at the time.

I will have to look at his bibliography to see what else I might recall.

Knight's short story Four in One is one of those that keeps coming up in any 'Help me find a story I remember... ' thread.

 

[Matteo]

Somehow missed this thread. But did see another one yesterday and posted my collection. I'm a fan - though not to the extent where I can quote passages or remember specific scenes; I like the genre and he's a great example of it. And I agree he's not a great  writer but he can certainly tell a great story - even if (or perhaps  because) they're loopy.

A lot of these I read in one long "binge" so they tend to merge together and it's hard to pick out specific favourites.

 

[BAYLOR]

Somehow missed this thread. But did see another one yesterday and posted my collection. I'm a fan - though not to the extent where I can quote passages or remember specific scenes; I like the genre and he's a great example of it. And I agree he's not a great  writer but he can certainly tell a great story - even if (or perhaps  because) they're loopy.

A lot of these I read in one long "binge" so they tend to merge together and it's hard to pick out specific favourites.
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The Human Operator is a story that he. He co-wrote with Harlan Ellison in 1971. It was laster adapted for the 1990's Outer Limits tv series.

The story can be found in the 1975 book Partners in Wonder

 

[JunkMonkey]

A lot of these I read in one long "binge" so they tend to merge together and it's hard to pick out specific favourites.

For me it has to be The Moonbeast - a pure feverdream of a book. Any novel that has (almost as an aside) an immortal sabre Tooth tiger that lives on the Moon and eats a diet of cowboys that fall through an interdimensional rift has got to be high on anyone's list of all time greats.