"Carrying its little bit of human civilization, the expeditionary ship Space Beagle sped at an ever-increasing speed through a night without end..." This is the story of the strangest voyage of exploration ever made... The story of a group of one thousand scientists determined to pierce the secrets of outer space... discover what lies beyond our solar system!
Author
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.
