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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
For those who have not read any of Van Vogt, I can recommend:
The Monster
The Village
The Sound
Dear Pen Pal\
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I suggest "The Beast" and "The Voyage of the Space Ship Beagle". The thing about his books is they're all so very different. There are a few that fall into a group but the majority are all as different from each other as they are from everyone else's books. He was a pretty good writer but he certainly had one of the wildest imaginations I've ever encountered.
By the way, there's one other author who might be worth discussing in this thread and that's Robert L Forward and his book "Dragon's Egg". This is absolutely hard science fiction, as much as any book could ever be, and yet it takes place in a setting that seems impossible to have anything happen, on the surface of a neutron star with gravity 67 billion times as great as on Earth. Stuff happens though. Stuff really happens.
He wrote shortly after the golden age of sf and I really don't know much about him other than that one book. It's a book that's hard to forget.
Barry
Barry