Black Destroyer
1939
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
Almost everybody agrees that the Golden Age started with the July, 1939, issue of Astounding, however. That's because its cover story was "Black Destroyer," the first published SF by A. E. Van Vogt.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
136
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
A.E. van Vogt
Author · 54 books
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.
