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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The Weapon Shops of Isher
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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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Destination: Universe!
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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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The Weapon Makers
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The Beast
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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 Book of Ptath
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The Silkie
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The Battle of Forever
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The Man with a Thousand Names
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The Wizard of Linn
6 editions - first published in 1962 Borrow -
The Changeling
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The Anarchistic Colossus
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The Darkness on Diamondia
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Pendulum
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More than Superhuman
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Supermind
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The Far-Out Worlds of A. E. van Vogt
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The Violent Man
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Quest for the Future
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Planets for Sale
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The Best of A. E. van Vogt
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Renaissance
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The Gryb
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Children of Tomorrow
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Monsters
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Cosmic Encounter
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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 Empire of Isher
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Future Glitter: science fiction
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Computerworld
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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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Two-Hundred Million A.D
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Out of the Unknown
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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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Lost: Fifty Suns
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SLAN
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No-time French
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Earth Factor X
2 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Des lendemains qui scintillent
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L'homme multiplié
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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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M 33 in Andromeda
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Les Monstres
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The Book of Van Vogt
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No-Time Japanese (audio CDs)
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The Twisted Men
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No-Time Hungarian (audio CDs)
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Le Colosse anarchique
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Science Fiction Monsters
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No-Time Greek (Cassette Course)
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Au-delà du village enchanté
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Siege of the Unseen
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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
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
No-Time Swahili (audio CDs)
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The Hypnotism Handbook
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Quest for the future: science fiction
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Transgalactic
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
The Voyage of Space Beagle
1 edition - first published in 1973 -
No-Time Hungarian (Cassette Course)
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Science-fiction, nouvelles
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
No-Time French Part 2 CD set
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No-Time Turkish
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Man with 1000 Names
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Sterne der Macht: Science-Fiction-Roman
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The Three Eyes of Evil
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Mission: Interplanetary
1 edition - first published in 1952 -
No-Time Persian (audio CDs)
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Der wunde Punkt
1 edition - first published in 1950 -
Le Livre de Ptath
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Quest for the Future Npb
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A Van Vogt omnibus
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No-Time Greek (audio CDs)
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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
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Alternative names
- A. E. (Alfred Elton) Van Vogt
- Van Vogt
- Van Vogt a.E.
- A. E. Van Vogt
- A. E. VAN VOGT
- Alfred Elton, Van Vogt
- Alfred E. Van Vogt
- A. F. Van Vogt
- Alfred Elton VAN VOGT
- A E. Van Vogt
- AE Van Vogt
- A.E. VAN VOGT
- A.E van Vogt
- A. E Van Vogt
- A. E van Vogt
- A.E. Van Vogt
- A.e.van vogt
- Alfred Elton Van Vogt
- A.E. van Vogt
- A.E.Van Vogt
- A.E Van Vogt
- Alfred Elton VANVOGT
- Alfred Ellon VANVOGT
- Alfred Elton VanVogt
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