by A.E. van Vogt
A classic science fiction tale from the 40s. Slan has the obsession with ESP that most of the Science Fiction from that era has. It moves along rapidly like a novel fro, E. E. Doc Smith or from Bester. It is not quite as good as those and I did not like it as much as Voyage of the Space Beagle by...
Read this way back in the day. It was good, for 70s sci-fi, but it was very 70s and I don't think it would hold up well today. But this is one of the originals in the genre of "persecuted misfit turns out to have super-powers and proceeds to kick ass while saving the society that hated and feared hi...
Oh my goodness this was awful. I read it as part of a classics of science fiction project, and I understand that it was first published in 1940, but just.. UGH!! The prose is leaden, overcomplicated, without rhythm or grace, and sometime just flat bizarre. A sample, The thoughts erupting from his ...
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