AUTHOR’S NOTETHIS BOOK is an affectionate tribute to one of the great masters of science fiction. Mr. A.E. van Vogt.
When A. E. van Vogt appeared on the scene, in the late 1930s, science fiction was undergoing its most important transition and was in the process of moving ahead, out of the Gernsbachian doldrums in which it had for too long been immured, into the Golden Age of John W. Campbell, Jr., and his great magazine, Astounding Science Fiction.
In the Campbellian revolution that was to reshape science fiction into a mature and significant genre of popular literature, van Vogt was to play a leading role.
He sold his first story to a science fiction magazine in 1939. Almost from the first, he was recognized as a brilliant new talent. Before long, the pages of Astounding Science Ficti
