Rogue Ship is a 1967 novel by A E Van Vogt created and adapted from 3 short stories to form a novel. The 3 short stores used were:
- Centarus II Originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1947
- Rouge Ship Originally published in Super Science Stories in 1950
- The Expendables Originally published in if Worlds of Science Fiction in 1963
Using Van Vogt own terminology when creating a novel from 3 previous short stories, he so named it a...
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Rogue Ship is a 1967 novel by A E Van Vogt created and adapted from 3 short stories to form a novel. The 3 short stores used were:
- Centarus II Originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1947
- Rouge Ship Originally published in Super Science Stories in 1950
- The Expendables Originally published in if Worlds of Science Fiction in 1963
Using Van Vogt own terminology when creating a novel from 3 previous short stories, he so named it as a Fixup.
Rogue Ship is a standalone novel in a form of a Fixup, because of its form of 3 short stories re-hashed into one, the reader can tell without difficulty when the story changes from one original short story to the next. Because of this Rogue Ship can sometimes lose some continuity as there are 'large gaps' missing from the plot/story line.
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