The World of Null-A
by A. E. van Vogt
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Who was Gosseyn? Gosseyn himself didn't know his own identity -- only that he could be killed, yet live again... But someone knew who Gosseyn was -- and was using him as a pawn in a deadly game that spanned the Galaxy!
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The World of Null-A
April 1984, John Goodchild Publishers, Goodchild
Hardcover
in English
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086391022X 9780863910227
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"The occupants of each floor of the hotel must as usual during the games form their own protective groups..."
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SF Alternatives.
Originally published in serial form in Astounding Science Fiction (1945).
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Gilbert Gosseyn, a man living in an apparent utopia where those with superior understanding and mental control rule the rest of humanity, wants to be tested by the giant Machine that determines such superiority. However, he finds that his memories are false. In his search for his real identity, he discovers that he has extra bodies that are activated when he dies (so that, in a sense, he cannot be killed), that a galactic society of humans exists outside the Solar system, a large interstellar empire wishes to conquer both the Earth and Venus (inhabited by masters of non-Aristotelian logic), and he has extra brain matter that, when properly trained, can allow him to move matter with his mind.
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