Series
Rull
A. E. van Vogt · 1 novel · 6 novelettes · 1 short story · 1940–1978
The War Against the Rull fixes up several previously published short stories into a single novel about humanity's long war against the shape-shifting, technologically formidable Rull. A. E. van Vogt built much of his early SF around this kind of episodic, idea-driven structure, each chapter closer to a self-contained puzzle than a piece of a continuous plot, and this book is usually catalogued as a single novel despite its patchwork origins.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Rull at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1940s6
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
1 novel · 6 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Second Solutiondarkest · most intense
- The War Against the Rullbrightest · calmest