Restlessness was evident everywhere the people wanted to return to a place they knew was inhabited - not continue to an unknown where life was questionable. For many on board the craft Earth had become a vague memory, while for others it was a mere dot in the vast starry reaches of space. It had been traveling through space for almost twenty years, and still nine years of flight remained before Centaurus would be reached. Suddenly Grayson is virile, he is powerful, alive! Women notice him, and want him!!īut unknown to him, his liberation is being monitored - by dangerous underground revolutionaries who want to use his powers to help overthrow the secret, extra-planetary masters of the world, the Utt.Ĭentaurus was the destination of the space ship The Hope of Man. Peter Grayson accidentally discovered the key to his chains: an unnoticeable crack in his rose-colored glasses that liberated him from the tyranny of women. It's a world of the future where women are the dominant sex and men are forced to wear chemically-treated glasses to keep them in line. But their signs didn’t say that, or that they were recruiting by time machine from all the ages of Earth! “Men Wanted,” their signs said-men to fight the vast war of the future. Recruiting Station (1942) Īstounding Science-Fiction, March 1942, Vol. Until Blord sees her, and comprehends the trap, and with fantastic speed and inventiveness stops her enemies and starts her new future.at his side. She is a helpless pawn in the galaxy's power struggle. Somehow, incredibly, she is caught up in an attempt to destroy the business genius, Blord. She was programmed to kill the man - and die! She left earth to find a new future in the pioneer Galaxy of the Ridge Stars, but from the moment she lands, she is trapped. When his wife is kidnapped, war veteran Jim Pendrake embarks upon a search that takes him to a lost colony on the moon-and a secret, sinister society. One of the finest writers in the golden age of science fiction-and inventor of the intricatley plotted form of SF known as the "space opera"-offers the story of a flawed hero possessing almost superhuman strength. But between them they held the one secret that the aliens had never learned about the people of Earth…. Opposing them were two humans and one isolated brain in a mechanical body. And they were in positions of power everywhere. Genetically altered, the aliens looked exactly like humans. Less than a billionth of a second-but a time shift had nonetheless happened.Īs the shadow ship started to emerge from the time jump, men and aliens were locked in a secret, undeclared war for control of the Earth. For a split second the Solar System wasn’t. Many fans of that era would have named van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov as the three greatest science fiction writers.Įarth Factor X (1974) aka The Secret Galactics van Vogt (Alfred Elton van Vogt), Canada (1912 - 2000)Īlfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the genre.
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