Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)