Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | A. E. van Vogt and James H. Schmitz

Alfred Elton van Vogt (Winnipeg, Canada, April 26, 1912 - Los Angeles, USA, January 26, 2000) was a renowned Canadian-born science fiction author widely regarded as one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers from the mid-twentieth century 'Golden Age' of the genre.

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James Henry Schmitz (October 15, 1911???April 18, 1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, when World War II broke out. During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer in the Pacific for the United States Army Air Corps. After the war, he and his brother-in-law ran a business which manufactured trailers until they broke up the business in 1949.

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Research Alpha Full Story From: Barbara Ellington felt the touch as she straightened up from the water cooler. It was the lightest of touches, but quite startling—momentary, tiny flick of something ice-cold against the muscle of her right arm at the shoulder.