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🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Voyage of the Space Beagle by Alfred Elton Van Vogt”
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This is Star Trek before Star Trek. It is Alien long before Alien. It is the template for so much modern science fiction. What it is not is particularly good.

I don't intend to dump on the classics (and this is undoubtedly a classic) but 1950s sci-fi takes place …

Hugo Mills

@darkling@mstdn.social replied · last week

@Edent I've not read much Vogt (and haven't read this one), but what I have read has been ~~terrible~~ difficult -- much more so than many of his contemporaries or predecessors.

I think a group of us reading "World of Null-A" at school led us to the nickname "A. E. van Vogon", and that's stuck in my mind ever since...

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