Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
A. E. van Vogt
Born: April 26, 1912
Died: January 26, 2000 (aged 87)
Bio: Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the Golden Age of the genre.
Known for:
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)
- The World of Null-A (1945)
- The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
- The Weapon Makers (1947)