A. E. van Vogt
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Alfred Elton van Vogt （/væn voʊt/; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000） was a Canadian-born science fiction author.
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.
The Science Fiction Writers of America named him their 14th Grand Master in 1995 （presented 1996）.
Alfred Vogt （both "Elton" and "van" were added much later） was born on April 26, 1912, on his grandparents' farm in Edenburg, Manitoba, a tiny （and now defunct） Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada, in the Mennonite West Reserve.
He was the third of six children born to Heinrich "Henry" Vogt and Aganetha "Agnes" Vogt （née Buhr）, both of whom were born in Manitoba and grew up in heavily immigrant communities.
Until age four, van Vogt and his family spoke only Plautdietsch at home.
For the first dozen or so years of his life, van Vogt's father, Henry Vogt, a lawyer, moved his family several times within western Canada, moving to Neville, Saskatchewan; Morden, Manitoba; and finally Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Alfred Vogt found these moves difficult, later remarking: Childhood was a terrible period for me.
I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm.
Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.
By the 1920s, living in Winnipeg, father Henry worked as an agent for a steamship company, but the stock market crash of 1929 pr...