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PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100312852363

ISBN-139780312852368

eBay Product ID (ePID)1090667

Product Key Features

Book TitleSlan : a Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / General

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorA. E. Van Vogt

Book SeriesSlan Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-038438

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"A recognized giant of Campbell's golden age." --David G. Hartwell "Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt's Slan is still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against." --Charles de Lint "Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science." --James Gunn "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...." --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt's Slan is still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against., Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science., 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...., "Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt'sSlanis still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against." --Charles de Lint "Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science." --James Gunn "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...." --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt's Slan is still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against." -- Charles de Lint "Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science." -- James Gunn "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...." -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Over fifty years on from when it first saw print, van Vogt's Slan is still one of the quintessential classics of the field that other SF novels will inevitably be measured against." --Charles de Lint "Van Vogt was creating the mythology of science, writing stories of science as magic or magic as science." --James Gunn "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...." -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisIn the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel Slan was one of the works of the era. Slan 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, Slan 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. This edition has a new introduction by Kevin J. Anderson.

LC Classification NumberPS3543.A6546S58 1998