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A. E. van Vogt Biography

Alfred Elton van Vogt (/væn voʊt/; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. He is regarded as one of the most popular, influential and complex practitioners of the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-called Golden Age.

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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

Night, Stories, Awakening, Result, Story, Nights

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Cost, Pay, Rented, Writing

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Change, Field, People, Printed Word, Writing

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Break Up, Breakup, Interesting, Page, Breakups, Sooner

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

Bearing Arms, Buy, Free, Gun, Right, Weapons

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Encouragement, Space, Praise, Breed, Launched

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Study, Behavior, Theory

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Annual, British, Fiction, Old, Science, Years

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Truth, Reader, Sense

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Christmas, Children, Book, Male, Single

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Simple, Office, Stories, Fellow, Bright

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

Awareness, Having, Intricacy, Self, Stories

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Writing, Years, Ideas, Beginnings, Stories, Touch