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Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1912-2000) Canadian author, in the US from November 1944, when he was welcomed to California by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and made regular appearances at its meetings (see Fandom). He was born Alfred Vogt and legally changed this to Alfred Elton van Vogt during the process of applying for American citizenship in 1945. Van Vogt had not left his native land until his early thirties, and it is arguable that a Canadian solitudinousness colours his work throughout; it is certainly the case that he wrote very few tales that, after the American pattern, involve the penetration of frontiers by culture Heroes whose relationship to Homo sapiens is patriotic. The many Space Opera empires in his work generally pre-exist the tales that describe them, and are conquered from within by protagonists who may be revealed already to have been Secret Masters.
Van Vogt had been active for several years in various other genres, but star
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A. E. van Vogt
Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)
A. E. van Vogt | |
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Van Vogt c. 1963 | |
Born | Alfred Vogt (1912-04-26)April 26, 1912 Edenburg, nära Gretna, Manitoba, Canada |
Died | January 26, 2000(2000-01-26) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, US |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1939–1986 (science fiction) |
Genre | Science fiction |
Literary movement | Golden Age of Science Fiction |
Spouse | Edna Mayne Hull (m. 1939; died 1975)Lydia Bereginsky (m. 1979) |
Alfred Elton van Vogt (VANVOHT; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-call