The Weapon Shops of Isher is a science fiction novel by American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in 1951. The novel is a fix-up created from three...
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1941 story, "The Seesaw". It was, in turn, used as the basis for a portion of the 1951 fix-up novel The Weapon Shops of Isher. It was among the stories selected...
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still act as self-contained stories. By contrast, van Vogt's The Weapon Shops of Isher is structured like a continuous novel, although it incorporates...
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though the serial was published before some of the other Isher stories contained in The Weapon Shops of Isher. The first paperback edition, part of an Ace...
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A. E. van Vogt (category Canadian emigrants to the United States)
(though not all) of the stories that were compiled to make up the novels The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Mixed Men and The War Against the Rull were published...
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the story that represents the start of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. "Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the...
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The World of Null-A, sometimes written The World of Ā, is a 1948 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt. It was originally published...
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by Clifford D. Simak We by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Weapon Makers by A. E. van Vogt The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. van Vogt What Entropy Means to Me by...
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Prometheus Award (redirect from Prometheus Hall of Fame Award)
Heinlein, "Requiem" 2004: Vernor Vinge, "The Ungoverned" 2005: A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher 2006: Alan Moore (author) / David Lloyd (illustrator)...
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van Vogt, as well as the name of the fictional race of superbeings featured in the novel. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding...
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explores time travel and its effects on humanity and the natural world. The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. van Vogt, portrays a future society where citizens...
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950) is a science fiction novel by American writer A. E. van Vogt. An example of space opera subgenre, the novel is a...
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Tullio Proni (category University of Miami alumni)
sound. The light shines through the plastic, providing a translucent, icicle effect." Isher Enterprises took its name from the Weapon Shops of Isher series...
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destroy the museum and surrounding city with an atomic weapon. The survey team rules Earth suitable for colonization, but is concerned that the unknown...
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part of an exploration team on their way to Mars. He is the only survivor when their spaceship crashes in the Martian desert. He is trying to reach the shallow...
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the Yevd are the antagonists of both, and the biological weapons used to secure the Yard are implied to be what the protagonists of the earlier story...
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"The Weapon Shop of Isherman." This is a clear reference to AE Van Vogt's "The Weapon Shops of Isher." "Fantastic Fiction.com: The Sunrise Lands by S...
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mission to prevent the war, secure the secret of the ancient house for the benefit of all mankind, and get the girl. Damon Knight reviewed the novel favorably...
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combined in the sequel The Wizard of Linn. A genealogical chart of the ruling family of the Empire of Linn is included. Van Vogt based Empire of the Atom largely...
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Rulls by the biological weapons obtained from Mira 23. With the aid of counterintelligence agents communicating with him telepathically via the ezwal cub...
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Biggest Holdup (1960) D-482 SF A. E. van Vogt The Weapon Shops of Isher (1961) D-486 NA Edward De Roo The Little Caesars (1961) D-487 NA Leonard Sanders...
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Elsewhere / A. E. van Vogt The Weapon Shops of Isher (1954) D-061 SF L. Sprague de Camp Cosmic Manhunt / Clifford D. Simak Ring Around The Sun (1954) D-069 SF...
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April 1912 (category Months in the 1910s)
Vogt, Canadian science fiction writer, author of The Voyage of the Space Beagle and The Weapon Shops of Isher; in Gretna, Manitoba (d. 2000) Civil war broke...
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The Pawns of Null-A is a 1956 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published as a four-part serial in Astounding...
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Commander John Lane returns from a ten-year mission in space to find that the teenagers of Spaceport City have organized themselves into "outfits", well disciplined...
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an edition of 3,021 copies. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Unknown in October 1943. The book has also appeared under the titles Two...
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for the Quik-Rite pen company, awakes in the hospital with no memories of the last two weeks. His boss tells him that he disappeared in the middle of his...
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collection of science fiction short stories by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, published in 1971. "Humans, Go Home" "The Reflected Men" "All the Loving...
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"Vault of the Beast" is a short story by Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, published in the August 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. A shape-shifting...
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The Wizard of Linn is a science fiction novel by American writer A. E. van Vogt, a sequel to Empire of the Atom. The novel was originally serialized in...
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