Alfred Elton Van Vogt Libri

Nat Cemp è un Polimorfo, un essere superiore frutto di mutazioni genetiche, che vigila sul genere umano. L'intero universo è accessibile a questi individui che possiedono tutta la conoscenza tecnologica della propria razza e del contesto nel quale vivono. Questa gigantesca saga narra la storia di Nat Cemp e dei Polimorfi i quali, nel perseguire la missione che si sono proposti, vanno a scontrarsi con coloro che amministrano le sorti della Galassia. Una nuova, avvincente storia di uno dei più famosi scrittori di Fantascienza.

Per nove anni la mamma lo aveva allevato e preparato per quel momento, pure si sentì stringere alla gola, quando mentalmente disse: "Buona fortuna, mamma!" Perchè Jommy era uno slan, apparteneva cioè alla super-razza che, dotata di antenne nascoste tra i capelli e di poteri telepatici straordinari, gli uomini perseguitavano e trucidavano a vista. Perchè? Qual'era il cosmico segreto degli slan? Che cosa andavano silenziosamente preparando nella titanica metropoli del più remoto futuro? tra grattacieli di 500 piani alti un chilometro? Ecco un romanzo di fantascienza che darà al lettore sensazioni, speranze, stupori e sogni senza fine. A. E. Van Vogt è un classico di questo genere di narrativa e diventerà l'autore preferito anche dei tifosi di fantascienza italiani. Perchè i libri di Van Vogt vi faranno sognare per tutta la vita.

Turning torture and brainwashing inside out, Ruxton combated his cruel oriental captors with their own subtle techniques. The Violent Man is the startling novel of a man who pitted himself against the brains of a nation, the might of an army, and the demands of two erotic, insatiable women.

Science fiction adventure as an alien spacecraft is frozen in time in earth's 18th Century creating problems for the captain of a pirate ship

Gilbert Gosseyn, the null-A genius of the Earth-Venus war, never realized that this interplanetary war was but a borrowed incident in a greater conflict until he was thrust onto the galactic battlefield as a mere pawn. But in picking Gosseyn as "expendable," those cosmic opponents unleashed forces they had never dreamed existed. One was the entrance of a powerful third party in the war. The second was the ability of certain other pawns to foresee the future. Finally, there was the secret of Gosseyn's original purpose - a secret which could decide the fate of the entire galaxy!

Alternative cover editions exist here and here.Stories to thrill and delight you.Here is an author whose name is a sure guarantee of the most exciting and intriguing science fiction writing you can buy. The far ranging imagination of A. E. van Vogt will take you - Thousands of years into the future! Millions of years into the past! Trilions of miles into outer space! - and into other dimensions, galaxies and universes. Here is one of the modern masters of science fiction of whom it can well be said: "van Vogt's formula is grandoise - imaginative, I love it all." -Groff Conklin, Galaxy magazine. It contains the following stories:The Great Engine (1943) The Great Judge (1948) Secret Unattainable (1942) The Harmonizer (1944) The Second Solution (1942) Film Library (1946) Asylum (1942)

"Slan" was Van Vogt's first novel and remains his best known and most influential work. The story of a mutant boy who must flee the persecution of normal humans in order to face his real destiny, it is a story that continues to appeal to science fiction fans of all generations. 256 pp. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Clane, a mutant, returns from exile in an attempt to prevent the post-atomic Empire of Linn from breaking apart

The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic & the coming race of supermen. Grandmaster 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 & most influential. It was the 1st major trade SF hardback ever, in 1949, & has been in print in various editions ever since. The entire careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness & Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A, & so it's required reading for anyone who wishes to know the SF classics canon. It's 2650 & Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, of Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of 25,000 electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he's some remarkable abilities & sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot.