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 (DIR) Post #AkckA4ceeUkFsgC8NE by ErsatzCulture@mastodon.social
       2024-08-04T12:01:29Z
       
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       The charity bookshop at Bolsover Castle didn't have a particularly big SF selection, but they did have a surprisingly large number of A. E. van Vogt books.Given that he seems to be totally out-of-print these days, I picked up four of what I think are the most well known works, just so that at some point I can say that I've read him.  (From everything I've read, I doubt very much I'll care for his writing.)These editions are about the same age as me; they have both pre- & post-decimal prices!
       
 (DIR) Post #AkckA5PDjvaqJIuv4a by gmcgath@liberdon.com
       2024-08-04T12:55:36Z
       
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       @ErsatzCulture "Black Destroyer" and "The Weapon Shops of Isher" are good. I started _The World of Null-A_ and found it very confusing, which seemed to be the whole point. I lost the book before I could finish it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Akckm9Tl2nUdwnBrnM by ErsatzCulture@mastodon.social
       2024-08-04T13:02:26Z
       
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       @gmcgath I was a bit surprised by the lack of any Null-A book given the size of that collection; I thought they were his most well known works after Slan, Space Beagle and maybe the Weapon stuff.  Perhaps a previous customer had already grabbed those?I do recall Dave Langford brutally eviscerating Null-A Three in the book review page of a 1980s issue of White Dwarf magazine, which I think was the first time I encountered van Vogt's name.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-A_Three#Reviews