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The works of A. E. Van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt Was born on April 26, 1912 in Canada. Many fans of the Golden Age of science Fiction would have named van Vogt, Robert Anson Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov as the three greatest science fiction writers. Born on a farm in Edenburg, van Vogt was one of the most popular and highly esteemed science fiction writers of the 1940s.

In the year 1939, van Vogt 's first published sci-fi story was printed in the July 1939 issue of //Astounding Science-Fiction.// It was called __Black Destroyer.__ Here is an excerpt: "On and on Coeurl prowled! The black, moonless, almost -starless night yielded reluctantly before a grim reddish dawn that crept up from his left. A vague, dull light it was, that gave no sense of approaching warmth, no comfort, nothing but a cold, diffuse lightness, slowly revealing a nightmare landscape.

Black, jagged rock and black, unliving plain took form around him, as a pale-red sun peered at last above the grotesque horizon. It was then Coeurl recognized suddenly that he was on familiar ground." (The first two paragraps of __Black Destroyer__)

This excerpt shows that van Vogt likes to be very descriptive with his writing. For example in the second sentence of the first paragraph, he uses all of that description to describe a sunrise! It isn't like a graceful, cheery description, it's grim, strange, and dark. Most of van Vogt's stories are written like that

Unfortunely, all good things must end. On January 26, 2000, A.E. van Vogt died in [|Los Angeles], [|USA] from [|Alzheimer's disease]. At the time of his death, van Vogt had written 42 novels, 20 collections, and four nonfiction books. In the year 2002, a new collection was published called //Essential A.E. van Vogt// Sources //1) Wikipedia.com/A.E. van Vogt// //2) http://vanvogt.www4.mmedia.is/slanchapter.htm// 3) http://www.sfwa.org/news/vogt.htm