Talk:The World of Null-A

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"Critical reception" and van Vogt's response

A. E. Van Vogt reissued "Null-A" in a revised edition. His foreword reveals that the revision was essentially triggered by damon knight's critique. I think that deserves mention, given that so much mileage is given to the critique in the article, but I don' t have my copy of the revised "Null-A" here, so can't add it myself. Help? --Alvestrand (talk) 14:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why is more space devoted to Damon Knight in this article than to the plot of the actual novel? This seems to exhibit a very negative bias on the part of that contributor (a Damon Knight fanboy? Possibly with the initials AF?), especially given the subsequent reviews and evaluations of the book by others in the field. So Damon Knight didn't like the book. BFD. If you look hard enough, you can always find someone who doesn't like ANY particular book. This sounds a lot like sour grapes to me. Jealous much, Damon? In fact, I think the section should be rearranged with the general response to the book appearing before DK's diatribe, so I will do it. Gil gosseyn (talk) 08:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. Who is Damon Knight and why is he even mentioned here? I think it should be removed. This classic book has had a profound impact on my life - it is one of the best sci-fi books I ever read and one that I remember the title and writer of for decades after because of that. I am inclined to say that it did have the most impact on my life of any book as I learned from it the concept of "symantic meaning" (and symantic translation) which has helped me to overcome a very large portion of my autism related social problems in life. Carlo Wood (talk) Carlo Wood (talk) 21:32, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Damon Knight was a fairly well-known science fiction author and a contemporary of van Vogt. He was also a founder of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and became even better known as a reviewer of science fiction for many years, in large part because of his review of this book. But in this case he pointed out what van Vogt got wrong, apparently without noticing what van Vogt got right. -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:04, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]