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The World of Null-A - A.E. van Vogt
The World of Null-A
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The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and the coming race of supermenGrandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous and most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover... show more
The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and the coming race of supermenGrandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous and most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print in various editions ever since. The entire careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A, and so it is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics.It is the year 2650 and Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, or Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he has some remarkable abilities and sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot.
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Format: paper
ISBN: 9780765300973 (0765300974)
Publisher: Orb Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Null-A (#1)
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Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it
1.0
Van Vogt was a prolific and influential author of pulp Science Fiction and World of Null-A is one of his most famous books, but I am completely at a lost to explain why it is famous. If there is such a thing as philosophical propaganda then this is an example of it. Characters constantly refer to ...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it
3.0 The World of Null-A
Right from the outset this is a mind-bending, roller coaster ride of twists and turns. Don't expect detailed world building and character development, that is not what Van Vogt is all about. He is instead concerned with exploring his crazy ideas and plot twists.In the opening chapter we discover tha...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it
3.0 Le monde des A
An extremely strange occurrence. Many years ago, when I was in my early teens, I read A.E. van Vogt's World of Null-A, which is about as good as most of A.E. van Vogt's oeuvre - that is to say, not very good at all. I was however struck by his preface, where he boasted that this novel, all by itself...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it
1.0
An extremely strange occurrence. Many years ago, when I was in my early teens, I read A.E. van Vogt's World of Null-A, which is about as good as most of A.E. van Vogt's oeuvre - that is to say, not very good at all. I was however struck by his preface, where he boasted that this novel, all by itself...
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