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    <body><![CDATA[To van Vogt, the universe is a violent place and teaming with life. The Space Beagle is a scientific exploration ship sent out from Earth to go where no man has gone before and study all that it finds. The alien beings that are encountered are invariably hostile or if they aren't their efforts to co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56489885">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in a used bookstore today and saw some vintage sci-fi so I got in the mood for some. I've had this book forever so it's about time I got to it.<br/>-----<br/>This was my first book from Van Vogt and it turned out to be exactly what I needed to scratch my vintage sci-fi itch. Aliens, spaceshi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57916573">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have just started reading old, classic science fiction.  I have an old pretty well beat up 1970 version (so old that it still has an ad for Kent cigarettes in the middle of it). I also have a thing for really cool sci-fi cover art, so when I'm buying these things, I look for the cover art to see i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15235538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A. E. van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle (Astounding, 1950)<br/><br/>The cover of the ebook trumpets this as &quot;the novel that inspired Alien.&quot; And, to be fair, van Vogt sued Ridley Scott and co. and won. Okay, you can see the resemblances to the film if you turn your head and squint j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13040346">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If Darwin's Beagle had had a quarter of the problems the Space Beagle has, then we would all still be creationists.<br/><br/>This is a good book.  However, it suffers from a couple problems.  First off, it's really a melding of four short stories, not a proper novel, so there's very little exposit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8923532">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic science-fiction. Intrepid space travelers battle many strange and dangerous alien life-forms. One of the stories was the basis for the Alien movies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting collection of tales of alien contact. Mostly deals with the science of Nexialism, which integrates all science knowledge. <br/> <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Sci-Fi Classic from the 1950's. Some of the concepts may seem outdated and dry by today's sci-fi standards, but a good read nonetheless, if not just to give yourself a better understanding of sci-fi past as well as present.<br/><br/> The plot follows the crew of the Space Beagle, an exploratory ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36600697">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorite books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book is definitely dated, it can still teach modern SF writers a thing or two. I very much enjoyed rereading this one. Among the stories that make up the &quot;voyages&quot; of the Space Beagle (think Star Trek, but this book pre-dates it), is the story that was later plagiarized to becom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3269027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Resistance, however, is useless.&quot; p. 198. Favorite quote.<br/>Classic style, somewhat hard, science fiction where the characters actually discuss what they are thinking and encountering. A bit like Robert Heinlein.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this allegedly was a major inspiration for the first alien, but a bit more nightmarish.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the main character was cool.<br/>everything else was stupid.]]></body>
    
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