
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century—the "Golden Age" of the genre. van Vogt was born to Russian Mennonite family. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home. He began his writing career with 'true story' romances, but then moved to writing science fiction, a field he identified with. His first story was Black Destroyer, that appeared as the front cover story for the July 1939 edtion of the popular "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine.
Series
Books

Masters of Time
1950

Transfinite
The Essential A. E. Van Vogt
2003

The Silkie
1969

Slan
1940

The Violent Man
1962

The Earth Killers and Other Stories
2010

The Winged Man
1966

The Weapon Makers
1947

Cats in Space and Other Places
1992

The Changeling
1944

Mission To The Stars
1952

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3
1980

The Battle of Forever
1971

The War Against the Rull
1959

M 33 in Andromeda
1971

Children of Tomorrow
1970

Cosmic Encounter
1979

The Best of A.E. Van Vogt
1974

Renaissance
1979

The Man with a Thousand Names
1974

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
1970

The Proxy Intelligence and Other Mind Benders
1971

Siege of the Unseen
1959

The House That Stood Still
1950

The World of Null-A
1945

Out of The Unknown
1948

Supermind
1977

The Best of A.E. van Vogt, Volume 1
2023

The Beast
1943

Planets for Sale
1954

The Gryb
1976

Mission
Interplanetary
1950

Computer World
1983

Lost
Fifty Suns
1972

Tyranopolis
1973

Null-A Three
1973

The Darkness on Diamondia
1972

Slan Hunter
2007

The Universe Maker
1950

The Worlds of A.E. van Vogt
1974

Vault of the Beast
1940

The Weapon Shops of Isher
1951

The Players of Null-A
1948

The Storm
1943

Rogue Ship
1963

Quest For The Future
1970

The Wizard of Linn
1950

The Book of Ptath
1943

The Mind Cage
1957

Earth Factor X
1974

Black Destroyer
1939

One of Our Asteroids is Missing/The Twisted Men
1963

Triad
Three Complete Science Fiction Novels
1959

The Voyage of the Space Beagle
1950