The Mixed Men

The Mixed Men
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author(s)	A. E. van Vogt
Cover artist	Ric Binkley
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1952
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	223 pp
ISBN	NA

The Mixed Men is a fix-up novel of science fiction stories by author A. E. van Vogt. It was released in 1952 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. It was reprinted by Berkley Books in 1955 under the title Mission to the Stars. Most of the stories had previously appeared in the magazine Astounding SF.

Contents

• "Concealment"
• "The Storm"
• "The Mixed Men"
• "Lost: Fifty Suns"
• "Is it true?"

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller found the novel to be "distinctly minor van Vogt" and that the protagonist "isn't very convincing."^[1]

References

1. ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, December 1952, pp.102

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 300. 
• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t90.htm#A2002. Retrieved 2008-02-25. 

External links

• The Mixed Men publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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