VAN VOGT, A. E. — The Weapon Makers

New York, NY: Greenberg Publisher, 1952. 1st revised; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Nettie Weber. Cover Art; This is the First Revised Edition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There are spots of foxing to both front and rear endpapers. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, with some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners . The rear dust jacket cover has spots of ground in dirt / toning. "Van Vogt systematized his writing method, using scenes of 800 words or so where a new complication was added or something resolved. Several of his stories hinge on temporal conundra, a favorite theme. He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books: Narrative Technique by Thomas Uzzell, The Only Two Ways to Write a Story by John Gallishaw, and Twenty Problems of the Fiction Writer by Gallishaw. He also claimed many of his ideas came from dreams; throughout his writing life he arranged to be awakened every 90 minutes during his sleep period so he could write down his dreams. Van Vogt was also always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge (akin to modern meta-systems). The characters in his very first story used a system called "Nexialism" to analyze the alien's behavior. Around this time, he became particularly interested in the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .