The Pawns of Null-A | |
Author: | A. E. van Vogt |
Cover Artist: | Ed Valigursky |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Science fiction |
Publisher: | Ace Books (standalone) |
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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.