- Fantasy, Fiction, science fiction, general, Canadian Science fiction
"In the beginning was the Shining One, Ptath, god of land, sea and space, on whom be all praise heaped, and countless prayers offered that he may return to his chosen race from his millions of years of merging with the race, which noble sacrifice he made for the glory of his people and for the development of his spirit, O Diyan, O Kolla and divine Rad."
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Epic, grave, unpretentious and plot-driven.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- A. E. van Vogt
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- J'ai lu, Editions J'ai Lu, Hachette / le rayon fantastique n° 87
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9782277124634
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“He was Ptath.”
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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