Recommended by Paul Cook as one of the most important SF novels. Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised by "normal" humans. Slans are usually shot on sight, but that doesn't stop Jommy's mother from bringing him to see the world capital of Centropolis, the seat of power for Earth's dictator, Kier Gray. But on...
A normal human nervous system is potentially superior to that of any animal's. For the sake of sanity, and balanced development, each individual must learn to orientate himself to the real world around him. There are methods of training by which this can be done. Shadows. A movement on the hill where the Games Machine had once stood, where all was now desolation. Two figures,...
The Golden Age of SF is universally dated from the July 1939, issue of Astounding because that's when "Black Destroyer," A. E. van Vogt's first SF story, appeared. Isaac Asimov's first story also appeared in the same month but nobody—as Asimov himself admits—noticed it.
People noticed "Black Destroyer," though, and they continued to notice the many other stories that van Vogt...
Reader, in your hands you hold one of the most controversial- and successful-novels in the whole of science fiction literature. In these introductory remarks, I am going to tell about some of the successes and I shall also detail what the principal critics said about The World of Null-A. Let me hasten to say that what you shall read is no acrimonious defense. In fact, I have...
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