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Name: The Weapon Shops of Isher

Author: A. E. van Vogt
Year: 1951
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Science fiction, Award winners

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9780671431297
9780848808518
0671431293
0848808517

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story Seesaw, van Vogt began unfolding the complex tale of the oppressive Empire of Isher and the mysterious Weapon Shops. This volume, The Weapon Shops of Isher, includes the first three parts of the saga and introduces perhaps the most famous political slogan of science fiction: The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free. Born at the height of Nazi conquest, the Isher stories suggested that an oppressive government could never completely subjugate its own citizens if they were well armed. The audience appeal was immediate and has endured long beyond other stories of alien invasion, global conflict and post war nuclear angst.

This book is part of the "The Empire of Isher" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Empire of Isher"
First published in 1978
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"The Weapon Makers"
First published in 1947
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