Alfred Elton van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba. Early in his career he wrote for true confession pulp magazines like True Story, but in the late 1930s he began writing science fiction, which he was more interested in. His first published SF story, "Black Destroyer" was published in 1939, and is considered to be one of the first works of the Golden Age of science fiction. In 1941 he left his job at the Department of National Defence to become a full-time writer, and he went on to write a large number of short stories. In 1944 he moved to Hollywood, California. In the 1950s he briefly became involved in L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics projects. Although he left Dianetics, he claimed that Hubbard's followers continued to harass him, and he stopped writing for a few years. In the 1960s Frederik Pohl convinced him to start writing again, and he wrote novels (as opposed to short stories that were later developed into novels) until his death in 2000.
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Slan
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World of Ā
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Empire of the Atom
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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The House that Stood Still
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The War Against the Rull
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Pawns of Null-A
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The Universe Maker
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The Mind Cage
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Destination: Universe!
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The Beast
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The Weapon Makers
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Rogue Ship
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The Winged Man
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Away and Beyond
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Mission to the Stars
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Masters of Time
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The Wizard of Linn
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The Battle of Forever
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The Silkie
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The Man with a Thousand Names
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The Changeling
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The Darkness on Diamondia
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The Anarchistic Colossus
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The Violent Man
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The Best of A. E. van Vogt
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More than Superhuman
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Supermind
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Pendulum
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Mixed Men: An Interstellar Adventure
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Tyranopolis
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Le sorcier de Linn
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The Secret Galactics
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The Gryb
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Monsters
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Cosmic Encounter
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The Empire of Isher
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Future Glitter: science fiction
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The Blal: And Other Science Fiction Monsters
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Null-A Three
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Futures Past: The Best Short Fiction of A.E. van Vogt
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Ptath
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Earth's Last Fortress
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Triad: three complete science fiction novels
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No-time French
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SLAN
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Le monde des a
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Two-Hundred Million A.D
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Lost: Fifty Suns
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Earth Factor X
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Des lendemains qui scintillent
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L'empire de l'atome
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Les armureries dIsher
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Les fabricants d'armes
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Les Monstres
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The Book of Van Vogt
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The Twisted Men
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Le Colosse anarchique
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Au-delà du village enchanté
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Siege of the Unseen
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
The money personality
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Destination Univers
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
L'Eté indien d'une paire de lunettes
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The Hypnotism Handbook
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Quest for the future: science fiction
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
No-Time Hungarian (Cassette Course)
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Science-fiction, nouvelles
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No-Time French Part 2 CD set
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No-Time Turkish
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Man with 1000 Names
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Der wunde Punkt
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Le Livre de Ptath
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
A Van Vogt omnibus
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Ewige Wiederkehr
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
Aytokratoria tou atomou
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No-Time Tagalog (Cassette Course)
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Reflections of A. E. Van Vogt: the autobiography of a science fiction giant : with a complete bibliography.
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
The Worlds of A. E. van Vogt
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Ischer: ein Zyklus in zwei Romanen und zwei Erzählungen
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Rencontre Cosmique
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Thyella sto diasterna
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Astounding Science Fiction, August 1946 (Volume XXXVII No. 6)
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
The Undercover Aliens
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Das verzauverte Dorf
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
La Machine Ultime
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
The Best of A. E. van Vogt., Vol. 2
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
The search for certainty
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Terra - Alpha Centauri und zurück
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The Mating Cry
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
No-Time Russian (8 audio cassettes)
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Le Silkie
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No-time Spanish 1 CDs
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Ténèbres sur Diamondia
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Moonbeast
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Wyprawa do gwiazd
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Créateur d'Univers
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No-Time Dutch (Cassette Course)
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Briefe von den Sternen
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One Against Eternity
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Ta paidia tou aypio
1 edition - first published in 1979
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- A. E. (Alfred Elton) Van Vogt
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