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Van Vogt, A.E.
THE BEST OF A.E. VAN VOGT
book-date: 1976
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1976
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Harry R. Bennett
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(Introductions by Malzberg, Van Vogt)
Don't Hold Your Breath
All We Have On This Planet
War of Nerves
The Rull
The Semantics of Twenty-First Century Science (article)
Future Perfect
Being an Examination of the Ponsian and Holmesian Secret Deductive Systems (article)
Home of the Gods
The Violent Male (article)
Prologue to The Silkie
The Proxy Intelligence

These stories originally appeared from 1947 to 1974 - in Astounding, Other Worlds, If, Vertex, The Pontine Dossier, Saving Worlds, Stopwatch, The Silkie. 2 of the articles appear to be original to this book.

This is the second Van Vogt collection with this title (and quite different contents) - the first appeared in Britain in 1974. While this set of stories is an interesting selection of Van Vogt's work with some hard-to-find items, I will argue about the "best" part. The 1974 "Best of" was a decent representation of Van Vogt's best, or I would recommend the 2003 N.E.S.F.A. Press collection Transfinite, or one of the two classic collections that it drew upon heavily: Away and Beyond and Destination Universe.