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Icshi: The A.E. van Vogt Information Site
Covers Illustrations Photos
Bibliography Summaries Interviews
News Reviews Updates Links




Final update:
June 17th, 2011


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   A recipient of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Internet Guide Award, October 2006

Intute logo Listed on Intute, February 2008



A.E. van Vogt (1912-2000)


Have no idea who van Vogt is? I'd first
recommend visiting Juha Lindroos'
One Against Eternity
pages for an excellent introduction
to the man and his work.

And be sure to visit the superb
Weird Worlds of A.E. van Vogt
which my site was specifically
designed to complement.













Table of Contents


  1 — The Storysource Version 5

April 9th, 2008
A cross-indexed annotated bibliography of A.E. van Vogt's novels, stories, and non-fiction

  2 — Book & Magazine Covers Updated:

July 27th, 2009
Over 200 coverscans from my own book collection, with commentary on my favorites

  3 — Illustrations Updated:

July 27th, 2009
Artwork that accompanied stories in magazines and books

  4 — Plot Summaries Updated:

September 26th, 2009
Detailed synopses of van Vogt's novels and stories, including detailed summaries of all of his works that were never published in English

  5 — Slanology Now free!

March 25th, 2009
My comprehensive guide to Slan, meant to be read as a companion to the novel. Originally an ebook from BookLocker.com, it is now available as a free download!

  6 — The Three Worlds of Null-A Released:

April 30th, 2003
A book-length comparative study of the three versions of The World of Null-A

  7 — Photos Updated:

April 27th, 2007
Pictures of van Vogt, his first wife E. Mayne Hull, and second wife Lydia, along with brief biographical sketches

  8 — Interviews Updated:

July 29th, 2008
Interviews with A.E. van Vogt, author John C. Wright, and cover artist Gerry Daly

9 — "To Be His Keeper" Posted:

November 27th, 2002
An obscure pre-science fiction story from 1937, discovered by George Gilbert in 2002

10 — Reviews Updated:

June 1st, 2008
Reviews of van Vogt-related items released in the last few years, including John C. Wright's new novel Null-A Continuum

11 — News & Announcements Updated:

Aug 13th, 2010
News of various kinds, and information on upcoming publications

12 — Site Updates
Details on all the updates ever made to this website since its launch in September 2001

14 — Links Updated:

July 27th, 2009
Some of my favorite websites, including other van Vogt sites from around the world

15 — Space Rubbish: Icshi's Blog New!
Bits of This & That... But Mostly *That*



     I'd like to express my gratitude to Magnus Axelsson, Gerry Daly, H.L. Drake, Denis Dubé, George Gilbert, Dan Hooker, Michael McKinney, Mark McSherry, Robi Michael, Yutaka Morita, Alexander Martin Pfleger, Grant Thiessen, Lydia van Vogt, and Robert Weinberg, for their assistance, suggestions, generosity, and encouragement.

     Many others have also helped with this site — they are individually credited on the various Update pages and in the Version History section of The Storysource bibliography.

     This website and its contents are ©2003-2009 by Isaac Wilcott unless otherwise noted. Some items (such as interviews and stories) are copyrighted by their respective owners, and appear here by their permission. The copyrights to the images of book and magazine covers, illustrations, and photographs presented here belong to their respective copyright holders, whose names are always given where known. Please respect these author's rights.

     Have any questions, comments, complaints, corrections, suggestions, or additional information? Please feel free to contact me. I enjoy answering any kind of question, simple or complicated, and do my best to reply promptly to all e-mails.


Icshi: (pronounced 'IK shee)
short for Icshicoath (pronounced ik shih 'KOE ath)
best translated as "Guardian(s) of Knowledge"