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UNIVERSE_MAKER

                                                   mid-2007

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                                                         NAUGHT_SEVEN
"The Universe Maker" (1953)
by A.E. van Vogt
                                       GOLDEN_SPHERE
  This was the flip-side to the
  Ace Double edition of "The
  World of Null-A".

    An unlikeable cypher of a
    main character is yanked
    forward hundreds of years
    into the future, where he
    staggers through a complex
    multi-sided political
    conflict, struggling for
    comprehension and control of                      This sort of thing
    the situation.                                    is an antecedent of
                                                      many other "science"
    SPOILERS              fiction stories...

               Throughout he has this remarkable         "Glory Road",
               messianic conviction that he's on         by Heinlein
               the verge of a great philosophical
(As in the     breakthrough. His primary method          "The Corridors
Ballard,       is (as with van Vogt himself) the          of Time"
Jung is        interpretation of directed dreams.        by Poul Anderson.
referenced.)
               As with "Null-A", it turns
               out that he, himself, has              Oh. And:
               really been behind it all.
                                                         MAKER
                   (Funny that Heinlein
                   was always accused of
                   solipsism...)


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