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Name: The Silkie

Author: A. E. van Vogt
Year: 1969
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Science fiction, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9780886770624
9780450012099
0886770629
0450012093

How would you create a superhuman? That the key to this startling new novel by the master original thinker of science-fiction, A.E. van Vogt. For The Silkie was a being that could move through space, water, or on land with equal ease, could think like a computer, communicate etherically, and change form to suit changing circumstances.

But were the Silkies all that was claimed for them? Were they truly man,s own creations as heirs and helpers--or were they "ringers" from some unknown outer-space world of some anti-humanity conspiracy?

The Silkies themselves did not know. . . and that's what makes thus action-packed utterly unusual novel great. It's Van Vogt's first new novel in man years.

-from the back cover