Slan - by Alfred Elton Van Vogt & A E Van Vogt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine <i>Astounding.</i> Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel <i>Slan</i> was one of the works of the era. <p/><i>Slan</i> is the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan mutant outcast from a future society prejudiced against mutants, or slans. Throughout the forties and into the fifties, <i>Slan</i> was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas. <p/>This edition has a new introduction by Kevin J. Anderson.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt's <i>Slan</i> is still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against." --<i>Charles de Lint</i> <p/>"Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science." --<i>James Gunn</i> <p/>"Along with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein--and to a lesser extent L. Sprague de Camp and L. Ron Hubbard--he seemed nearly to create, by writing what Campbell wanted to publish, the first genuinely successful period of U.S. SF; only in this 'Golden Age' did it begin to achieve [success], in literary terms...." --<i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>A. E. Van Vogt</b> was a SFWA Grand Master. He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1944, by which time he was well-established as one of John W. Campbell's stable of writers for <i>Astounding Science-Fiction</i>. He lived in Los Angeles, California and died in 2000.</p>
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