- Interplanetary voyages, Mutiny, Fiction, Canadian Science fiction
Centaurus was the destination of the space ship The Hope of Man. It had been traveling through space for almost twenty years, and still nine years of flight remained before Centaurus would be reached.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- A. E. van Vogt
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Dobson Books, Doubleday, Daw Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780879975364
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Alfred Elton van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba. Early in his career he wrote for true confession pulp magazines like True Story, but in the late 1930s he began writing science fiction, which he was more interested in. His first published SF story, "Black Destroyer" was published in 1939, and is considered to be one of the first works of the Golden Age of science fiction. In 1941 he left his job at the Department of National Defence to become a full-time writer, and he went on to write a large number of short stories. In 1944 he moved to Hollywood, California. In the 1950s he briefly became involved in L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics pr
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