{"id":502,"date":"2007-12-27T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-12-27T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T05:23:00","slug":"the-wizard-of-linn-a-e-van-vogt-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/the-wizard-of-linn-a-e-van-vogt-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Wizard of Linn&quot; A E Van Vogt (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/2143285100\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2328\/2143285100_aafe18c14d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/2143285100\/\">&quot;The Wizard of Linn&quot; A E Van Vogt (1962)<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/hypercastle\/\">M I I Z Z Z A R D<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>This book has been staring at me for years and I have never opened it up but I&#8217;m going to take it back to Austin with me and finally read it. I love A. E. Van Vogt, prolly one of the craziest sf authors ever. His later work blows cuz he became a Scientologist. But this book was originally serialized in a magazine in 1950 so it should be good. I&#8217;d say don&#8217;t read anything after 1970 but that may be too late. Here&#8217;s the back cover blurb: &#8220;12,000 A.D. &#8211; The Earth, after the atomic holocaust, had reverted to a strange kind of barbarism where men could build spaceshipts but could not communicate except by the most primitive means. Alien invaders had been sighted at the edge of the galaxy &#8211; but no one took action. Only one man, THE WIZARD OF LINN could save the decadent empire and with his mysterious powers, prevent the Earth&#8217;s destruction.&#8221; Wow. Such bad grammar.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The Wizard of Linn&quot; A E Van Vogt (1962) Originally uploaded by M I I Z Z Z A R D This book has been staring at me for years and I have never opened it up but I&#8217;m going to take it back to Austin with me and finally read it. I love A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}