Away and Beyond
by A. E. van Vogt
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Away and Beyond was originally published in 1952 in hardback by Pellegrini & Cudahy and contains 9 short stories. Depending on which re-issue you have you may be missing either one or two stories which were in the original. For example, the Berkley paperback with a publication date of February 1959 dropped 'Vault of the Beast' and 'Heir Unapparent'.
The original 9 stories are:
Vault of the Beast
The Great Engine
The Great Judge
Secret Unattainable
The Harmonizer
Heir Unapparent
The Second Solution
Film Library
and
Asylum
The publication dates for the stories span the period 1940 (Vault of the Beast) to 1948 (The Great Judge). As might be expected the settings and the technolgies of some of the stories are dated but at least two (The Great Engine show more and The Great Judge) still read reasonably well.
My personal favorite is Film Library. Science and technology have left the story behind but I still enjoy the premise which amounts to some kind of "time warp" resulting in movies from the future taking the place of movies from the present (that is 1946 present)and causing a minor inconvenience to the owner of an agency which rents films (reel-to-reel 16mm movie films in the can)to businesses and educational institutions.
I wouldn't class the book as a "must read" but if you are curious about Van Vogt's writing style and don't want to wade through one of his novels I think Away and Beyond would be a good introduction to his prose. show less
The original 9 stories are:
Vault of the Beast
The Great Engine
The Great Judge
Secret Unattainable
The Harmonizer
Heir Unapparent
The Second Solution
Film Library
and
Asylum
The publication dates for the stories span the period 1940 (Vault of the Beast) to 1948 (The Great Judge). As might be expected the settings and the technolgies of some of the stories are dated but at least two (The Great Engine show more and The Great Judge) still read reasonably well.
My personal favorite is Film Library. Science and technology have left the story behind but I still enjoy the premise which amounts to some kind of "time warp" resulting in movies from the future taking the place of movies from the present (that is 1946 present)and causing a minor inconvenience to the owner of an agency which rents films (reel-to-reel 16mm movie films in the can)to businesses and educational institutions.
I wouldn't class the book as a "must read" but if you are curious about Van Vogt's writing style and don't want to wade through one of his novels I think Away and Beyond would be a good introduction to his prose. show less
Enjoyable enough, with only Asylum being likely to stay in my memory for any amount of time.
It's getting maybe an unfairly low rating as I have just read Asimov's Nightfall (again) and Van Vogt's stories suffer by comparison.
It's getting maybe an unfairly low rating as I have just read Asimov's Nightfall (again) and Van Vogt's stories suffer by comparison.
Contains seven of nine stories contained in hardcover edition.
Indeholder "The Great Engine", "The Great Judge", "Secret Unattainable", "The Harmonizer", "Heir Unapparent", "The Second Solution", "Film Library", "Asylum".
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Feb 26, 2013 (Edited)Danish
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A. E. Van Vogt was born on April 26, 1912 in Manitoba, Canada. He graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1928. His first story sales were to true story confession magazines in the early 1930s while he was working as a census clerk and representative of Maclean Trade Papers. He wrote plays for Canadian radio and in 1939, he began submitting show more stories and serials to Astounding Science Fiction. He wrote more than 35 novels during his lifetime including Slan, The Weapon Shops of Isher, The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null-A, The Weapons Makers, The Violent Man, The Silkie, The Battle of Forever, and The House That Stood Still. He died on January 26, 2000 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1959 (Collection) (Collection); 1942 (Asylum) (Asylum); 1946 (Film Library) (Film Library); 1943 (The Great Engine) (The Great Engine); 1948 (The Great Judge) (The Great Judge); 1944 (The Harmonizer) (The Harmonizer) (show all 10); 1945 (Heir Unapparent) (Heir Unapparent); 1942 (The Second Solution) (The Second Solution); 1942 (Secret Unatainable) (Secret Unatainable); 1940 (Vault of the Beast) (Vault of the Beast)
- First words
- The blue-gray engine lay half buried in a green hillside.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Oneness!
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