The Pawns of Null-A
{{Short description|1956 novel by A.E. van Vogt}}
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| name = The Pawns of Null-A
| image = File:ThePawnsOfNullA.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first standalone edition (under alternative title)
| author = A. E. van Vogt
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = Ed Valigursky
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Ace Books (standalone)
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| media_type = Print
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| preceded_by = The World of Null-A
| followed_by = Null-A Three
}}
The Pawns of Null-A is a 1956 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published as a four-part serial in Astounding Stories from October 1948 to January 1949 as The Players of Null-A. It incorporates concepts from the General semantics of Alfred Korzybski and refers to non-Aristotelian logic. It was published in the UK with the original name and in later US republication also had the original name restored.
The novel is a continuation of the story of Gilbert Gosseyn from The World of Null-A, expanding on the galactic events which drove the interplanetary invasion of the earlier story.
External links
- {{isfdb title|796}}
- The Pawns of Null-A as serialized in Astounding, [https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v42n02_1948-10_cape1736#page/n5/mode/2up parts one], [https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v42n03_1948-11_cape1736#page/n113/mode/2up two], [https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v42n04_1948-12_cape1736#page/n109/mode/2up three], and [https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v42n05_1949-01_cape1736#page/n105/mode/2up four] on the Internet Archive
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Category:1949 science fiction novels
Category:Novels by A. E. van Vogt
Category:Novels first published in serial form
Category:Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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