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I've got to say, Van Vogt is a guilty pleasure. Or maybe not so guilty, I don't mind at all saying I like him a great deal. There's just something about his style that really grabs me. Everything from 'Ptath' to 'Rogue Ship' to 'War Against the Rull'. Sure, most of his characters are self-absorbed selfish egomaniacs, and often murderous psychopaths as well . . . but so what? They're _entertaining_ psychopathic self-absorbed egomaniacs.

Maybe it helps that I don't take his stories so seriously, that I'm not looking to take away any sort of lessons from the stuff.

I sometimes get the impression that this attitude towards sf is just a little rarer than it should be.

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