author
A. E. (Alfred Elton) Van Vogt
1912–2000
A major voice of science fiction’s Golden Age, this Canadian-born writer became famous for fast-moving stories packed with strange ideas, cosmic danger, and unsettling questions about human potential. His novels helped shape the genre and went on influencing later writers for decades.
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The expendables
by A. E. (Alfred Elton) Van Vogt
About the author
Born in Manitoba on April 26, 1912, Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction writer who later became an American citizen. He began publishing science fiction in 1939 and quickly became one of the standout names associated with the magazine Astounding and the genre’s mid-century Golden Age.
He is especially remembered for works such as Slan, The Book of Ptath, The World of Null-A, and The Voyage of the Space Beagle. Readers were drawn to his swift pacing, big conceptual leaps, and stories that often explored superhuman abilities, alien intelligence, and the limits of logic and identity.
Van Vogt spent much of his later life in the United States and remained an important reference point in science fiction history. He died on January 26, 2000, in Los Angeles, leaving behind a body of work that still stands out for its energy, strangeness, and ambition.