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1912–2000 Canada
Alfred Elton van Vogt (/vænvoʊt/; 26 April 1912 – 26 January 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and influential science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century.
Canada Novelists Short story writers Also known as: Alfred E. van Vogt, Van Vogt
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
Give me a title and we'll start from there.
You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals.
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Religious habits had in their texture a conservatism unmatched by any other human institution.
The Book of Ptath (1947)
He had a sense of having been saved from the necessity of making a decision rather than of having made one.
And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed.
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Thank the goddess! What a monstrous obscenity. Thank the goddess! Vile, lecherous, lascivious witch! Wretched debauched, wanton, bloody, devil woman!
The Book of Ptath (1947)
But the possible extent of the disaster couldn’t make any difference. Way back in 1944 people had learned that lesson. Horror must be ignored, unflinchingly faced; and patient preparation made for the hour when evil could be ended in one devastating and overwhelming blow.
The Book of Ptath (1947)
Religion, you see, is not in its roots adoration of a god or a goddess. Religion is fear. Religion is the spark that issues forth when the thought of death or danger strikes the individual. It’s personal. It grows out of darkness and uncertainty.
The Book of Ptath (1947)
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