![]() ![]() ![]() He made a huge splash in 1940 with the Astounding serial Slan, and another splash with "The Weapon Shop" (1942), which was fixed up into a novel, The Weapon Shops of Isher. His first sale, to Campbell at Astounding, was "Black Destroyer", still considered a classic. He worked for the Canadian Ministry of Defence, doing some writing on the side, beginning with true confessions stories, and turning to SF in 1938, inspired by John Campbell's classic "Who Goes There?". Van Vogt was born in 1912 in Canada, and died in 2000. Long is less prominent, but he did win a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he has - or had - a significant reputation as a Horror writer, and a disciple of H. Both authors of this Ace Double are fairly significant - Van Vogt of course is a legend, and an SFWA Grand Master. ![]()
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