Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end ... -A. E. van Vogt

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

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A. E. van Vogt was a science fiction author who made significant contributions to the genre with his imaginative and thought-provoking works. Known for his complex storylines and explorations of human psychology, van Vogt's writing pushed the boundaries of science fiction and captivated readers with his visionary narratives.

A. E. van Vogt Quotes to Explore

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Chri...
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories....
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in...
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader....
Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine....
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's bloc...
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior....
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a wri...
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write...
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old....

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Christmas is my favorite time of the year....
I hope maybe I'll be in a Christmas movie that becomes part of someone's holiday tradition....
I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!...
I love Christmas movies....
I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter ...
I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy....
We always watch 'The Polar Express.' I love that movie; that's a very, very nice Christmas tradition that we have....
As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippin...
Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas...
There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you're growing up, you need someone you can identify with. I rem...