Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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)