During the period in which A.E. van Vogt was writing this novel, electric pinball machines were showing up in drugstores, taverns and arcades throughout America, and the pinball flipper was introduced. Now players with fast flipper fingers could keep the action going, with lights blinking and bells ringing.
I like to think of van Vogt's stories as the li…
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