The Pawns of Null-A

The Pawns of Null-A

Cover of the first standalone edition (under alternative title)
Author	A. E. van Vogt
Cover artist	Ed Valigursky
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books (standalone)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Preceded by	The World of Null-A
Followed by	Null-A Three

The Pawns of Null-A is a 1956 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published as a four-part serial in Astounding Stories from October 1948 to January 1949 as The Players of Null-A. It incorporates concepts from the General semantics of Alfred Korzybski and refers to non-Aristotelian logic. It was published in the UK with the original name and in later US republication also had the original name restored.

The novel is a continuation of the story of Gilbert Gosseyn from The World of Null-A, expanding on the galactic events which drove the interplanetary invasion of the earlier story.

External links

• The Pawns of Null-A title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Pawns of Null-A as serialized in Astounding, parts one, two, three, and four on the Internet Archive