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Black destroyer van vogt...
Ae van vogt black destroyer marijuana
Black Destroyer
1939 A. E. van Vogt short story
"Black Destroyer" is a science fictionshort story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939.
It has been marked as the story that represents the start of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
"Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle. It was claimed as an inspiration for the movie Alien and van Vogt collected an out-of-court settlement of $50,000 from 20th Century Fox.
Plot summary
A Coeurl, a large, intelligent, black cat-like animal, considers its near-future starvation as its food source of id-creatures has been hunted to extinction.
Just as all seems lost, a spaceship lands near an abandoned Coeurl city and id-creatures pour out. He quickly surmises they are a scientific expedition from another star, which excites him as he considers scientists to be unlikely to harm him.
He approaches them as if simp