A. E. van Vogt

**Alfred Elton van Vogt**  (; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. He was one of the most popular science fiction writers in the mid-twentieth century.

## Death

Van Vogt died at his home in Los Angeles on January 26, 2000 from Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.

## Novels

|Year|Title|Series|Notes|Alternate titles|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1946|_Slan_||Originally serialized in _Astounding Science Fiction_, September – December 1940.||
|1947|_The Weapon Makers_|Isher|Significantly revised version of a novel originally serialized in _Astounding Science Fiction_, February – April 1943. Revised again in 1952.|_One Against Eternity_ (1964)|
|1947|_The Book of Ptath_||Originally appeared (complete) in _Unknown_, October 1943.|_Two Hundred Million A.D._ (1964) _Ptath_ (1976)|
|1948|_The World of Ā_|Null-A|Revised and shortened version of a novel originally serialized in _Astounding Science Fiction_, August – October 1945. Revised again in 1970.|_The World of Null-A_ (all editions from 1953 forward)|
|1950|_The House That Stood Still_|||_The Mating Cry_ (1960, revised) _The Undercover Aliens_ (1976)|
|1950|_The Voyage of the Space Beagle_||Fix-up of four short stories, originally published 1939 – 1950.|_Mission: Interplanetary_ (1952)|
|1951|_The Weapon Shops of Isher_|Isher|Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1941 – 1949.||
|1952|_The Mixed Men_||Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1945.|_Mission to the Stars_ (1955)|
|1953|_The Universe Maker_||Extensively rewritten and expanded version of the short story "The Shadow Men" (1950).||
|1954|_The Pawns of Null-A_|Null-A|Originally serialized (as _The Players of Ā_) in _Astounding Science Fiction_, October 1948 – January 1949.|_The Players of Null-A_ (1966)|
|1957|_The Mind Cage_||Extensively rewritten and expanded version of the short story "The Great Judge" (1948].||
|1957|_Empire of the Atom_|Gods|Fix-up of five short stories, originally published 1946 – 1947.||
|1959|_Siege of the Unseen_||Originally serialized (as _The Chronicler_) in _Astounding Science Fiction_, October – November 1946.|_The Three Eyes of Evil_ (1973)|
|1959|_The War Against the Rull_||Fix-up of six short stories, originally published 1940 – 1950.||
|1960|_Earth's Last Fortress_||Novella, originally appeared (complete, as "Recruiting Station") in _Astounding Science Fiction_, March 1942.|Anthologized as "Masters Of Time" in the van Vogt collection _Masters Of Time_ (1950).|
|1962|_The Wizard of Linn_|Gods|Originally serialized in _Astounding Science Fiction_, April – June 1950.||
|1962|_The Violent Man_||Non-sf; a political thriller.||
|1963|_The Beast_||Substantially revised fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1944.|_Moonbeast_ (1969)|
|1965|_Rogue Ship_||Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1947 – 1963.||
|1966|_The Winged Man_ (with E. Mayne Hull)||Originally serialized (and credited solely to E. Mayne Hull) in _Astounding Science Fiction_, May – June 1944. Greatly expanded (from 35,000 to 60,000 words) by van Vogt for book publication.||
|1967|_The Changeling_||Novella, originally appeared (complete) in _Astounding Science Fiction_, April 1944. Previously anthologized in the van Vogt collection _Masters Of Time_ (1950).||
|1969|_The Silkie_||Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1964 – 1967.||
|1970|_Children of Tomorrow_||||
|1970|_Quest for the Future_||Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1943 – 1946.||
|1971|_The Battle of Forever_||||
|1972|_The Darkness on Diamondia_||||
|1973|_Future Glitter_|||_Tyranopolis_ (1977)|
|1974|_The Man with a Thousand Names_||||
|1974|_The Secret Galactics_|||_Earth Factor X_ (1976)|
|1977|_Supermind_||Fix-up of three short stories, originally published 1942 – 1968.  The 1965 story "Research Alpha", minimally revised to form chapters 23-36 of this novel, was credited on original publication to van Vogt and James H. Schmitz.||
|1977|_The Anarchistic Colossus_||||
|1979|_Renaissance_||||
|1979|_Cosmic Encounter_||||
|1983|_Computerworld_|||_Computer Eye_ (1985)|
|1984|_Null-A Three_|Null-A|||
|1985|_To Conquer Kiber_||Unpublished in English.  Published in French as _A la conquête de Kiber_ and in Romanian as _Cucerirea Kiberului_||

## Other websites

- Sevagram, the A.E. van Vogt information site
- Obituary at _LocusOnline_ (Locus Publications)
- "Writers: A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000, Canada)"  – bibliography at SciFan
- A. E. van Vogt Papers (MS 322) at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: A. E. van Vogt
- **image**: A. E. van Vogt.jpg
- **caption**: Van Vogt in 1981
- **birth name**: Alfred Vogt
- **birth place**: Edenburg, near Gretna, Manitoba, Canada
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, US
- **occupation**: Writer
- **nationality**: Canadian
- **period**: 1939–1986 (science fiction)
- **genre**: Science fiction
- **movement**: Golden Age of Science Fiction
- **signature**: A.E. van Vogt (signature).svg