The Beast
1943
First Published
3.29
Average Rating
189
Number of Pages
One of the finest writers in the golden age of science fiction—and inventor of the intricatley plotted form of SF known as the "space opera"—offers the story of a flawed hero possessing almost superhuman strength. When his wife is kidnapped, war veteran Jim Pendrake embarks upon a search that takes him to a lost colony on the moon—and a secret, sinister society. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction.
Avg Rating
3.29
Number of Ratings
385
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
22%
3 STARS
43%
2 STARS
14%
1 STARS
5%
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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.
