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Atom war had destroyed the world...History and records had been lost; the few war-shocked people who were left could not even recall what had started the atomic destruction. But even these desperate circumstances could not change the basic nature of man.
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Epic, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- A. E. van Vogt
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Shasta Publishers, Ace Books, Macfadden-Bartell
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780671461447
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“Den ganzen Tag lang standen Tempelschüler an den Glockensträngen bereit, um eine wichtige Geburt zu verkünden.”
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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