Null-A Continuum

Null-A Continuum (2008 / Hardcover ISBN: 9780765316295) -- Continuing A .E. van Vogt’s World of Null-A!
In this heart-stopping sequel to A.E. van Vogt’s World of Null-A (sometimes written The World of Ā). Followed by: The Player's of Null-A [a.k.a.] The Pawns of Null-A '-' Many critics regard "Null-A Three" (1985) as the weakest of the Null-A books, and the Van Vogt's estate authorized a new Null-A sequel: "Null-A Continuum" ignores its events...
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'(...) Gilbert Gosseyn, the superhuman amnesiac with a double brain, must pit his wits once more against the remorseless galactic dictator Enro the Red and the mysterious shadow-being known as The Follower. And he must do it while he is being hurled headlong through unimaginable distances in space, in time, and through alternate eternities to fend off the death and complete the rebirth of the Universe itself!'

Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is perhaps most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print ever since. The careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip José Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A. It is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics. And so John C. Wright was inspired to write a sequel to the two novels of Null-A (the second was The Players of Null-A). To do this, he trained himself to write in the pulp style and manner of Van Vogt. [...] So return again to the Null-A future, in which 'the man with two brains', Gilbert Gosseyn, now discovers his 'third brain' and travels through heretofore unimaginable distances in space and in time to fend off the death of the Universe and the extermination of human life as Humanity reaches the peak of evolution millions of years in the future'.'
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"After more than half a century I can still recall the impact of his early stories." -- Arthur C. Clarke on A. E. van Vogt".

"Wright's book is an erudite homage to the pulp tradition by a Twenty First Century master." -- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction".

"An exciting voice, adding richness to Hard Science Fiction." ---David Brin on John C. Wright.

[From Booklist Review] "With its exuberant exploration of such now commonplace themes as teleportation and cloning, A. E. van Vogt’s seminal The World of Null-A (1945, Rev.1948) made an inestimable impact on the sf universe. For continuing the adventures of van Vogt’s superhuman, double-brained protagonist, Gilbert Gosseyn, no one is better qualified than rising star John C.Wright, whose acclaimed Golden Age trilogy—The Golden Age (2002), The Phoenix Exultant (2003), The Golden Transcendence (2003)—pays homage to the fiction of Van Vogt’s era. Gosseyn’s previous adventures included being fatally wounded, waking up in a genetically enhanced body, foiling a plot to destroy Earth and Venus hatched by galactic tyrant Enro the Red, and exiling Enro to an asteroid prison. Now Gosseyn’s friend, Venusian detective Eldred Crang, has been murdered, and Gosseyn is pegged as the culprit, initiating a chain of events that leads improbably to Gosseyn traveling into the future and saving the human race from extinction. Wright faithfully emulates van Vogt’s labyrinthine plot twists and energetic prose while answering questions about Gosseyn’s origins that have burned in fans’ minds for decades". --- Carl Hays.

[About the Author] John C. Wright lives in Centreville, Virginia.

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