Alfred Van Vogt's collection of the best novels of the Golden Age classic of American fiction will satisfy the taste of any discerning reader. The writer, canceling in his books the principles of the logic familiar to us, achieves a striking effect: it seems to be a traditional plot with malicious alien creatures familiar to science fiction and earthly victorious heroes, as if by magic, turns into a crazy extravaganza, where, as in a multicolor kaleidoscope, strange unpredictable figures flash and play a strange unpredictable game, the result of which is sometimes exactly the opposite of what was expected.