WRITER

A. E. van Vogt

1912 - 2000

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Alfred Elton van Vogt ( VAN VOHT; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-called Golden Age, and one of the most complex. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. E. van Vogt has received more than 495,352 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. A. E. van Vogt is the 1,298th most popular writer (up from 1,390th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Canada (up from 74th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.09

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  • 2.67

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Notable Works

Empire of the Atom
Life on other planets, Fiction
1956
World of Ā
Canadian Science fiction
1948
The House that Stood Still
science fiction, immortality, fantasy
Stephens had to solve the mystery of the centuries-old house that stood still -- or Earth would be destroyed! At first Allison Stephens knew only that there was something strange about the house and its sinister inhabitants. Then he stumbled onto the spaceship and learned of the catastrophe that threatened to obliterate the universe from the heavens -- a catastrophe that the masked immortals from The House that Stood Still could prevent. But the immortals planned instead to escape to another planet -- leaving Earth to its terrible fate. Only one of them, the unearthly beautiful Mistra Lannett, agreed to help save the world. During the fateful days that followed, Stephens and Mistra met the challenge to defeat the most indestructible aliens the world had ever known!
1950
The Weapon Shops of Isher
1951
Slan
He was slan. Human beings had killed his mother. Mankind hated and feared his entire race, regarded them as freaks and artificially created monsters. Mankind had almost exterminated them in the fierce Slan Wars that had left civilization under the thumb of an autocratic world-wide police state. That much young Jimmy Cross knew. He also knew that -- although he looked almost exactly like everyone he passed on the street -- he was a superior being. And he knew that the slim tentacles half-concealed in his hair were both a source of his superiority and a mark by which men could recognize and track down a hated slan. Alone and friendless in the world's greatest city, he set out to find his fellow beings and to solve the mystery of his existence.
1946
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Science fiction
1950

Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. E. van Vogt ranks 1,298 out of 7,302. Before him are Victor Serge, Jakob Wassermann, Alexander Radishchev, Matthew Lewis, P. G. Wodehouse, and Javier Marías. After him are John Tzetzes, Neil Gaiman, Aelius Aristides, Danielle Steel, Maurice Barrès, and Michel Verne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, A. E. van Vogt ranks 68. Before him are Hermann Graf, Rodolfo Gucci, Herbert C. Brown, Georg Solti, Petar Stambolić, and Pat Nixon. After him are Ivan Yakubovsky, György Sárosi, Shoichi Nishimura, Julia Child, Taiichi Ohno, and Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Among people deceased in 2000, A. E. van Vogt ranks 44. Before him are Takashi Kano, Willard Van Orman Quine, Carlo M. Cipolla, Merton Miller, Akira Nozawa, and Leonid Rogozov. After him are Frederick Herzberg, Michael Smith, Saburō Sakai, Petar Mladenov, Jan Karski, and Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, A. E. van Vogt ranks 65 out of 1,622. Before him are Maud Lewis (1903), John Candy (1950), Brian Tracy (1944), Donald O. Hebb (1904), Lester B. Pearson (1897), and Sidney Altman (1939). After him are Elizabeth Arden (1878), Mike Myers (1963), Glenn Ford (1916), Joe Weider (1919), Charles Taylor (1931), and Edward Dmytryk (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, A. E. van Vogt ranks 6. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), and Brian Tracy (1944). After him are David Morrell (1943), Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Louise Penny (1958).

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