Bibliography: A. E. van Vogt

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Resources like the ISFDB[A] and The Storysource[B] are wonderful but sometimes too detailed or require a lot of navigating and collating of information while others like the SFE[C] are equally wonderful but sometimes not bibliographically detailed enough. This is a middle road, based on those sources and my collection, which may still be too much or too little for many but I hope some will find it useful or possibly even interesting.

This particular thin bibliography or fat checklist was motivated by my recent purchase of _Out of the Unknown_ which completes my library of what I think of as van Vogt's "Phase I" books. The reason for the notion of "phases" is that, with very few exceptions, he essentially wrote from 1939-1951 and managed to publish most of this material in book form from 1946-66 until, after over a decade of almost no original material, Frederik Pohl (editing _Galaxy_ and _If_ at the time) got van Vogt back to writing new material in 1963 which manifested in book form from 1969 on. I wanted to recheck his bibliography to make sure I'd gotten it right and, while I was at it, post the results as this categorized bibliography.

However, this isn't the first one I've started--just the first I've finished. Prior to the van Vogt, I'd also recently acquired the "last" of what I think of as the essential (if affordable) Kuttner/Moore and, before that, Leiber. I actually started with the Kuttner/Moore bibliography, so it and the Leiber may be along some time soon, possibly followed by others.

The following is a list of parameters and conventions used in the lists below but it might be better to skip it, move directly to the lists, and only refer to it as needed.

    * {3EE}=The Three Eyes of Evil and Earth's Last Fortress
    * AB=Away and Beyond
    * DU=Destination: Universe!
    * {FP}=Futures Past
    * FOW=The Far-Out Worlds of A. E. van Vogt
    * M33=M 33 in Andromeda
    * MOT=Masters of Time
    * MTS=More Than Superhuman
    * OOTU=Out of the Unknown
    * PI=The Proxy Intelligence and Other Mind Benders
    * TBO=The Best of A. E. van Vogt
    * TM=The Twisted Men

    * Atom=Empire of the Atom
    * Rogue=Rogue Ship
    * Rull=The War Against the Rull
    * Space Beagle=The Voyage of the Space Beagle
    * Weapon Shops=The Weapon Shops of Isher

Another thing to note about fixups and "phases" is that _Rogue Ship_ could arguably be Phase II because a significant part of it comes from 1963 but it also includes two Phase I stories and was fixed up prior to _The Silkie_. On the flipside, _Quest for the Future_ and _Supermind_ could arguably be Phase I fixups because the former is built entirely out of Phase I material but none were related, and all had been previously collected while the latter is much like _Rogue Ship_ in reverse, having only one Phase I story and being mostly two Phase II stories. Both also came out after _The Silkie_. Some collections are also ambiguous (though perhaps less so, with most being entirely from one phase or the other or with the exception of only a story or two. Most Phase II or posthumous collections with significant Phase I content have mostly only reprinted or previously fixed-up Phase I content).

Finally, I'd note that Edna Mayne Hull was van Vogt's wife. E. M. (or E. Mayne) Hull is credited with some stories that came out from 1942-46 (coincidentally, van Vogt's peak of productivity when it was a rule to use a pseudonym when more than one story by the same author appeared in the same issue) which resulted in a collection, fixup, and novel under that name or combined with van Vogt's. Some believe she had a brief writing career (a notion van Vogt helped support) but others believe van Vogt essentially used the name as a pseudonym, much as John Campbell used his wife's name Doña Stuart to create his Don A. Stuart pseudonym. Either way, all work credited to Hull appears in four books. Three stories published in _Unknown_ appear in all editions of _Out of the Unknown_ while a fourth ostensibly intended to be published there appears in the 1969 paperback edition. Five of the six Artur Blord stories originally published in _Astounding_ appeared in the fixup _Planets for Sale_. The other ("Abdication" vt "The Invisibility Gambit") and one other _Astounding_ story credited to Hull ("Rebirth: Earth" vt "The Flight That Failed") appear in _The Proxy Intelligence_ with other van Vogt stories. Finally, the serial _The Winged Man_ was published in _Astounding_ and much later in revised book form. All four books are listed below.

I've tried very hard to include all information on a certain level and to make it accurate but there are bound to be errors. I'll update this if anyone points out any or provides more information, or if I discover anything myself. I'll then add a changelog of substantial changes at the end of the post to make it easy for people to be aware of them.

I've also tried to make this concise yet clear but, if it's not, let me know and I'll try to fix it.

Novels

Phase I

Phase II

Posthumous (essentially not by van Vogt)

Fixups

Phase I

Phase II

Collections

Phase I

Phase II

Redundant

Posthumous (and largely redundant)

Uncollected Stories

Despite all the above, some stories never made it into any van Vogt book, at least in their original forms (though all but one of the early fugitives did appear in the fixups or expansions detailed above). The following list excludes various excerpts, condensations, round-robins, etc., and only lists things that were, or were billed as, actual stories. (It also doesn't repeat the several Blord stories credited to Hull which are fully detailed above in _Planets for Sale_.) If a story was reprinted in an anthology, that's listed after its original publication. Only "Seesaw" was anthologized more than once and, for it, I just picked the anthology I think is best. Since van Vogt's last collection in his lifetime was 1978, I classify the last few stories as "post-collection era" stories.

Phase I

Phase II

Post-Collection Era

Links

[A]: ISFDB
[B]: The Storysource (PDF)
[C]: SFE

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