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Monsters (collection)
''Monsters'' is a collection of eight science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ... short stories by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt; written during 1940 and 1950, they were assembled by Forrest J. Ackerman in 1965. Contents *Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman. *"Not Only Dead Men" (1942) Final Command (1949) *"War of the Nerves" (1950) *"Enchanted Village" (1950) *" Concealment" (1943) *"The Sea Thing" (1940) *" The Monster" (1948) *" Vault of the Beast" (1940) Sources *A.E van Vogt, ''Monsters'', Publisher: Corgi, 1977, . External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Monsters (Collection) 1965 short story collections Science fiction short story collections Short story collections by A. E. van Vogt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest J
Forrest may refer to: Places Australia *Forrest, Australian Capital Territory * Forrest, Victoria, a small rural township * Division of Forrest, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia * Electoral district of Forrest, Western Australia, an electoral district from 1904 to 1950 *Forrest Land District, Western Australia, a cadastral division * Forrest, Western Australia, a small settlement and railway station ** Forrest Airport * Forrest River, Western Australia * Forrest Highway, Western Australia United States *Forrest, Illinois, a village *Forrest City, Arkansas * Forrest Township, Livingston County, Illinois *Forrest County, Mississippi * Camp Forrest, an American World War II training base in Tullahoma, Tennessee Elsewhere * Forrest Pass, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica * Forrest, Manitoba, Canada, a small town *Forrest Road, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland People and fictional characters *Forrest (surname) *Forrest (given name) * Forre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mixed Men
''The Mixed Men'' is a 1952 fix-up science fiction novel by the Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, a compilation of several shorter pieces written in the early 1940s. Contents The novel is an early example of a "fix-up," the combination of several previously-published stories into a cohesive book-length work, a practice which van Vogt not only pioneered in the early 50s but informally named. The three stories were originally published between the 1943 and 1945 in ''Astounding Science Fiction'', with a newly-written novella-length bridge between the first and second stories debuting in the 5,000 copy Gnome Press edition in 1952, as well as a new epilogue. * "Concealment" (''Astounding'', September 1943) (adapted as the prologue of the book) * "Lost: Fifty Suns" (''new material, later published separately'') (corresponding to chapters 1 through 7) * "The Storm" (''Astounding'', October 1943) (chapters 8 - 15) * "The Mixed Men" (''Astounding'', January 1945) (chapters 16 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monster (short Story)
"The Monster" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published in the August 1948 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. The story is often described as highly characteristic of the late Golden Age of Science Fiction The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction appeared in American genre magazines. Exemplars include the '' Foundation' ...; van Vogt considered it one of his personal favorites, and it was retroactively selected as one of the Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948), best stories of 1948 by Isaac Asimov in 1983. It has been one of van Vogt's most frequently anthologized short stories - sometimes under the alternate title "Resurrection" - and was included in several of his early collections, including 1952's ''Destination: Universe!'' and 1965's ''Monsters (collection), Monste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vault Of The Beast
"Vault of the Beast" is a short story by Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, published in the August 1940 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. Plot A shape-shifting construct created by malevolent extra-dimensional beings arrives on Earth as a stowaway on a freighter from Mars, having disguised itself as various inanimate objects during transit. The construct is capable of imitating any form of matter, passing through solid objects, controlling gravity, and reading human minds, but is also in constant physical pain; it has been sent to retrieve the "greatest mathematical mind in the Solar System." After landing, the construct kills and impersonates a clerk in the office of businessman and "Harvard graduate in mathematics" Jim Brender, whom it approaches with an offer: it will reveal the location of the lost Martian city of Li in exchange for Brender's assistance in gaining access to the "Tower of the Beast" said to be at its center. The Martians - extinct for between 25 and 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Short Story Collections
Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 29 – Tampere Ice Stadium, Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Short Story Collections
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which study the physical world, and the social sciences, which study individuals and societies. While referred to as the formal sciences, the study of logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science are typically regarded as separate because they rely on deductive reasoning instead of the scientific method as their main methodology. Meanwhile, applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as engineering and medicine. The history of science spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to the Bronze Age in Ancient Egypt, Egypt and Mesopotamia (). Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
