Good essay, Alex, thanks. It makes sense that Van Vogt would be drawn to GS because he had a highly systematic approach to writing. Several of his stories had "null-A" in the title--that was supposed to stand for non-Aristotelian and was related somehow to GS. He mainly used it for mystification, though, I think--he ultimately couldn't abandon logic to tell stories about an illogical, paradigm-shaking frame of reference, at least intentionally.
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- tom moody 8-13-2005 11:00 pm