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Early life. Alfred Vogt (both "Elton" and "van" were added much later) was born on April 26, 1912, on his grandparents' farm in Edenburg, Manitoba, a tiny (and now defunct) Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada, in the Mennonite West Reserve. He was the third of six children born to Heinrich "Henry" Vogt and Aganetha ...
Complete order of A.E. van Vogt books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Jan 26, 2000 · Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century—the "Golden Age" of the genre. van Vogt was born to Russian Mennonite family.
A rare pre-SF story by van Vogt from 1937, unearthed by George Gilbert in 2002. The Sevagram website (formerly known as "Icshi: The A.E. van Vogt Information Site") is devoted to studying the works and life of classic science fiction author A.E. van Vogt.
Apr 22, 2024 · A.E. Van Vogt (born April 26, 1912, near Winnipeg, Man., Can.—died Jan. 26, 2000, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a Canadian author of science fiction who emerged as one of the leading writers of the genre in the mid-20th century.
A.E. van Vogt has 584 books on Goodreads with 95052 ratings. A.E. van Vogt’s most popular book is Slan (Slan, #1).
The word "sevagram" only appears once in The Weapon Makers, as its last word. This resonantly mysterious Slingshot Ending, which seems to open universes to the reader's gaze, may well stand as the best working demonstration in the whole of genre sf of how to impart a Sense of Wonder.
Van Vogt was a horseback rider as a youth. In summers during his teens, he worked as a separator man on a threshing outfit and drove a truck for a combine. He was a good rifle shot, and even came close to going off on a trapping expedition to northern Canada.
Apr 28, 2019 · van Vogt made his science fictional debut in the July 1939 issue of Astounding with the story “Black Destroyer,” and issue which also featured Isaac Asimov’s first appearance in that magazine. The same year, he married Edna Mayne Hull, who would frequently be credited as van Vogt’s co-author.
Apr 7, 2018 · Transfinite: The Essential A. E. van Vogt contains the most popular and important stories from van Vogt's wide and varied career. Between 1939 and 1986—a span of almost 50 years—almost 100 of his short stories, novelettes, and novellas were published.
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