AE van Vogt Books in Order

Jommy Cross, a telepathic child from a hunted mutant race, escapes the regime trying to wipe his people out. The novel is part persecution story, part super-science chase, and still one of van Vogt's defining books.

This fix-up novel circles around a powerful nonhuman presence and the human fear it provokes. Van Vogt mixes future society, unstable alliances, and lurking menace into one of his stranger later adventures.

A god from Earth's far future returns in his immortal body with the mind of a dead 20th-century tank commander. To reclaim his power, Ptath must outfight a rival goddess and a broken empire.

A strange machine and a society pushed off balance drive this surreal shorter novel. Through the recurring figure Pendrake, van Vogt turns social upheaval and hidden transformation into a disorienting puzzle.

Gilbert Gosseyn lives in an apparent utopia and expects the great Machine to confirm his worth, but instead learns his memories are false. From there, the novel spirals into hidden bodies, mental discipline, and interplanetary intrigue.

Robert Hedrock, the immortal force behind Isher's uneasy balance, faces conspiracies from both throne and Weapon Shop. The sequel deepens the series' mix of political chess, strange technology, and arguments about freedom.

Gilbert Gosseyn's search continues as the mystery of his identity opens into galactic politics and invasion. The sequel keeps the first book's mix of mental discipline, sudden death, and widening cosmic stakes.

An ordinary man is caught up in recruitment for a far-future struggle in which Earth stands as humanity's last stronghold. Short and brisk, the novella packs time dislocation and large-scale war into a compact adventure.

A man is drawn into the mystery of a seemingly ordinary house that hides a much larger secret about power, identity, and Earth's place in the universe. Van Vogt plays it like a detective story that slowly opens into science fiction.

After a deadly mistake, soldier Morton Cargill is contacted by people from the far future who say his crime damaged generations to come. He is pulled into a time-spanning effort to repair history and himself.

Dr. Elliott Grosvenor, the only Nexialist aboard an exploration ship, must outthink both hostile aliens and the ship's own rigid specialists. It is van Vogt's classic string of dangerous first contacts, all wired together by one restless mind.

Clane Linn's story widens from palace intrigue to alien war when the old enemies called the Riss return to the Solar System. Armed with captured technology and his strange spheres, Clane fights on a much larger stage.

In the Empire of Isher, mysterious Weapon Shops give ordinary people protection and a rival system of justice. Robert Hedrock moves through the conflict between crown and shop, trying to keep either side from total control.

In a far-future empire, humanity confronts the hidden civilization of the Fifty Suns and the unsettling people shaped by old teleportation experiments. It is first-contact adventure wrapped in political suspicion and big-scale space opera.

In a far-future empire, the discovery of the Fifty Suns brings ordinary humans face to face with altered descendants and the so-called mixed men. Van Vogt turns the encounter into a knotty tale of empire, secrecy, and divided identity.

Written with psychologist Charles Edward Cooke, this is van Vogt's practical guide to hypnotism. It explains techniques, uses, and the ideas behind hypnosis rather than telling a fictional story.

Clane, a mutant child born into a far-future ruling family, survives court intrigue because a priest decides to educate him instead of kill him. His intelligence and access to lost technology make him dangerous to everyone around him.

David Marin tries to defend a scientist accused of sedition, only to have their minds switched. Trapped in an enemy body, he must survive a hostile state while proving who he really is.

After an accident reveals a hidden third eye on his forehead, a man is pulled into a long secret struggle with forces most people cannot perceive. This short novel leans hard into paranoia, altered perception, and hidden history.

Humanity is locked in a long, losing struggle against the shape-changing Rull. Van Vogt uses the war to stage a series of hard turns, covert missions, and uneasy encounters with an enemy that is hard to read and harder to trust.

Set against Communist China's prison and propaganda machinery, this lone non-science-fiction novel follows an attempt to break and remake a Western man. It is part political thriller, part study of domination and resistance.

A generation ship bound for Centaurus carries human hopes, fraying nerves, and the constant risk of mutiny. By the time it reaches new worlds, political struggle onboard is as dangerous as any alien enemy outside.

A wartime submarine's encounter with a mysterious winged stranger sends its crew hurtling into the far future. What begins as a military mystery becomes a struggle over survival, power, and humanity's changed world.

A Silkie, an amphibious shape-shifter with extraordinary mental and physical abilities, moves through human society while rival forces close in. The novel mixes secret-identity thriller beats with very strange alien biology.

Commander John Lane returns from space to find Earth's teenagers organized into disciplined outfits with their own rules. Then he learns one of their newest members is tied to an alien threat following him home.

When Peter Caxton receives recordings from the future, he becomes obsessed with tracing the events behind them. Van Vogt turns that premise into a time-bent quest full of probability traps, paranoia, and hidden connections.

Modyun grows beyond the shrunken, sheltered humanity behind the barrier and ventures into a harsher outer world ruled by animal-men. His journey turns into a search for the future of the human race itself.

On the strange world of Diamondia, an Earthman is drawn into a struggle over an ancient force tied to the planet itself. The book blends colonial adventure, unseen power, and one of van Vogt's eerier settings.

This nonfiction book lays out van Vogt's ideas about the habits and mindset that help people create and handle wealth. It reads as a personal theory of money, ambition, and practical self-discipline.

Gilbert Gosseyn returns for a late sequel that pushes the Null-A saga into larger cosmic war. Ancient fleets, mutant enemies, and Gosseyn's unusual abilities all collide in a story about sanity, power, and survival.

In a future dictatorship, a man marked for death tries to turn a scientific secret into a revolution. The novel is part chase, part dystopian puzzle, with van Vogt focused on control, identity, and sudden reversals.

Bored rich heir Steven Masters joins the first expedition to a nearby inhabited planet and winds up back on Earth in someone else's body. The result is a slippery identity puzzle with alien influence humming underneath it.

Earth is already the battlefield in a hidden war between humans and human-looking aliens planted in positions of power. A few unlikely allies, including a brain in a machine body, hold the key to fighting back.

Van Vogt's autobiography looks back on his childhood, writing life, ideas, and career in science fiction. It is the book to pick up if you want the author speaking in his own voice.

A linked novel of mental powers, secret research, and minds pushing past normal human limits. Separate threads gradually merge into a story about intelligence, manipulation, and what a supermind might become.

On a future Earth where an odd form of anarchy is managed by mysterious computers, alien invaders turn conquest into a game. Van Vogt mixes political speculation with a strange, fast-moving invasion story.

A spaceship from Earth's distant future crashes into the 18th-century Caribbean and tangles with pirates, time paradoxes, and an enemy vessel. It is a strange but lively mix of swashbuckling adventure and far-future science fiction.

This late novel leans into van Vogt's taste for hidden control, mental influence, and shifting reality. It plays more like a political and psychological puzzle than a straight space adventure.

Stranded on Mars, a lone human stumbles on an abandoned alien village that tries to care for him without understanding what a human actually needs. It is quiet, eerie, and one of van Vogt's most memorable short pieces.

In a society increasingly ruled by giant computers and programmer logic, a small resistance tries to reclaim human choice. Van Vogt turns a tech premise into a fight over free will, control, and ordinary life.

A brief nonfiction essay in which van Vogt tries to define an authoritarian, self-justifying male type. It also works as a companion piece to the ideas behind The Violent Man.

This best-of collection gathers van Vogt's short fiction at its sharpest, from alien menace and psychic evolution to tricky time loops. It is a strong place to sample the stories that helped shape his novels and reputation.

This posthumous sequel returns to Jommy Cross after Slan, with secret police, uneasy alliances, and the human-slann conflict still unresolved. It widens the politics and warfare of van Vogt's most famous future world.