A(lfred) E(lton) van Vogt, The Book of Ptath, Panther/Granada, 1984. Cover: Peter Elson. #PeterElson #FarFuture #Ptath
July 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A(lfred) E(lton) van Vogt, The Book of Ptath, Panther/Granada, 1984. Cover: Peter Elson. #PeterElson #FarFuture #Ptath
Science Fantasy Classics Revisited: The Book of Ptath
"The Book of Ptath" by A.E. van Vogt is an imaginative fantasy novel set in Earth's distant future, featuring Ptath, a reincarnated god grappling with his identity and confrontations with a malevolent goddess. Riveting stuff!
"The Book of Ptath" by A.E. van Vogt is an imaginative fantasy novel set in Earth's distant future, featuring Ptath, a reincarnated god grappling with his identity and confrontations with a malevolent goddess. Riveting stuff!
Science Fantasy Classics Revisited: The Book of Ptath
"The Book of Ptath" by A.E. van Vogt is an imaginative fantasy novel set in Earth's distant future, featuring Ptath, a reincarnated god grappling with his identity and confrontations with a malevolent goddess. Riveting stuff!
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December 16, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Science Fantasy Classics Revisited: The Book of Ptath
"The Book of Ptath" by A.E. van Vogt is an imaginative fantasy novel set in Earth's distant future, featuring Ptath, a reincarnated god grappling with his identity and confrontations with a malevolent goddess. Riveting stuff!
"The Book of Ptath" by A.E. van Vogt is an imaginative fantasy novel set in Earth's distant future, featuring Ptath, a reincarnated god grappling with his identity and confrontations with a malevolent goddess. Riveting stuff!
May 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
A(lfred) E(lton) van Vogt,The Book of Ptath, Panther, 1973. Cover uncredited. Sertilaized in Unknown Worlds, 1943. Published as Two Hundred Million A. D., 1964. #FarFuture #Ptath
July 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A(lfred) E(lton) van Vogt,The Book of Ptath, Panther, 1973. Cover uncredited. Sertilaized in Unknown Worlds, 1943. Published as Two Hundred Million A. D., 1964. #FarFuture #Ptath
Dude on the cover of Book of Ptath is living large.
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Dude on the cover of Book of Ptath is living large.
My A. E. van Vogt marathon has ended (for now) in reading the 'The Book of Ptath' published in 1947. So that is 23 out of 35 or 36 (depending on the source) books. I'll try, over time, to fill in the gaps, as it would be interesting to read the full oeuvre of a particular author.
September 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
My A. E. van Vogt marathon has ended (for now) in reading the 'The Book of Ptath' published in 1947. So that is 23 out of 35 or 36 (depending on the source) books. I'll try, over time, to fill in the gaps, as it would be interesting to read the full oeuvre of a particular author.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Mail call. Looking forward to (re)reading the vintage paperbacks. The history book is more for figuring out how teaching will work in the future, now that everything old is new again.
January 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Mail call. Looking forward to (re)reading the vintage paperbacks. The history book is more for figuring out how teaching will work in the future, now that everything old is new again.
Pues me conozco bastantes la verdad, desde los famosos Horis, Ra, Isis, Seth etc.
Hasta Aton, Hator, Nuit, Maat, Ptath y alguno más cuyo nombreno recuerdo(?)
Hasta Aton, Hator, Nuit, Maat, Ptath y alguno más cuyo nombreno recuerdo(?)
October 18, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Pues me conozco bastantes la verdad, desde los famosos Horis, Ra, Isis, Seth etc.
Hasta Aton, Hator, Nuit, Maat, Ptath y alguno más cuyo nombreno recuerdo(?)
Hasta Aton, Hator, Nuit, Maat, Ptath y alguno más cuyo nombreno recuerdo(?)
I haven't read PTATH, but I liked ISHER. SLAN was very disappointing, and the handful of other books by him I've read are all very similar in that there's some mysterious new human mental power someone or some group has, and then there are conspiracies and counter-conspiracies. There's a whiff of
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I haven't read PTATH, but I liked ISHER. SLAN was very disappointing, and the handful of other books by him I've read are all very similar in that there's some mysterious new human mental power someone or some group has, and then there are conspiracies and counter-conspiracies. There's a whiff of
SLAN is a classic of the genre, and while I don't think it holds up, it probably is good for those reading up on the history of sci fi to read. THE WEAPON-SHOPS OF ISHER is worth reading. THE BOOK OF PTATH is interestingly nuts. I wouldn't recommend anything from his Dianetics period.
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
SLAN is a classic of the genre, and while I don't think it holds up, it probably is good for those reading up on the history of sci fi to read. THE WEAPON-SHOPS OF ISHER is worth reading. THE BOOK OF PTATH is interestingly nuts. I wouldn't recommend anything from his Dianetics period.
Two Hundred Million A.D. (The Book of Ptath) is, by the way, van Vogt's only dull Golden Age novel. It's stuck in the older mode of A. Merritt and Edgar Rice Burroughs; the brilliance of van Vogt in this period is present only as details around the fringe of the story, like the wooden tech.
August 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Two Hundred Million A.D. (The Book of Ptath) is, by the way, van Vogt's only dull Golden Age novel. It's stuck in the older mode of A. Merritt and Edgar Rice Burroughs; the brilliance of van Vogt in this period is present only as details around the fringe of the story, like the wooden tech.
Ptath, a very powerful god, is thrown by his deadly rival, the goddess Ineznia, on Earth, around 200,000,000 AD, in the form of a mortal, where he has to face numerous dangers to survive.
July 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ptath, a very powerful god, is thrown by his deadly rival, the goddess Ineznia, on Earth, around 200,000,000 AD, in the form of a mortal, where he has to face numerous dangers to survive.