The war against the Rull - Softcover

A. E. Van Vogt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441871836 ISBN 13: 9780441871834

Publisher: Ace Books, 1959

Synopsis

This is a story woven out of short stories from Astounding SF in the 1940s, and is one of Van Vogt's classic works. It is about the war between humanity and the alien shape-changers, the Rull. This edition is the first complete edition, containing not

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Review

"A.E. van Vogt is truly a grand master of science fiction. He is to Canadian SF what H.G. Wells is to the British variety or Jules Verne to the French. We all stand on his broad shoulders." --Robert J. Sawyer

"Nobody, possibly with the exception of the Bester of "The Stars My Destination, " ever came close to matching van Vogt for headlong, breakneck pacing, or for the electric, crackling paranoid tension with which he was capable of suffusing his work." --Gardner Dozois

A.E. van Vogt is truly a grand master of science fiction. He is to Canadian SF what H.G. Wells is to the British variety or Jules Verne to the French. We all stand on his broad shoulders. "Robert J. Sawyer"

Nobody, possibly with the exception of the Bester of "The Stars My Destination, " ever came close to matching van Vogt for headlong, breakneck pacing, or for the electric, crackling paranoid tension with which he was capable of suffusing his work. "Gardner Dozois""

"A.E. van Vogt is truly a grand master of science fiction. He is to Canadian SF what H.G. Wells is to the British variety or Jules Verne to the French. We all stand on his broad shoulders." --Robert J. Sawyer

"Nobody, possibly with the exception of the Bester of The Stars My Destination, ever came close to matching van Vogt for headlong, breakneck pacing, or for the electric, crackling paranoid tension with which he was capable of suffusing his work." --Gardner Dozois

About the Author

A. E. Van Vogt was a SFWA Grand Master. He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1944, by which time he was well-established as one of John W. Campbell's stable of writers for Astounding Science-Fiction. He lived in Los Angeles, California and died in 2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Publication date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441871836
• ISBN 13: 9780441871834
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback