title: The War Against the Rull
author: A. E. Van Vogt
description: You might easily mistake a list of A.E. van Vogt's classic stories for the names of bygone rides in Disney's Tomorrowland: <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0532123468/${0}">Empire of the Atom</a></i>, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671836617/${0}">Mission to the Stars</a></i>, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0890833575/${0}">Two-hundred Million A.D.</a></i>, <i>Project: Spaceship</i>. This Nebula Grand Master, while still writing well into the 1980s, was a pioneer of sci-fi's golden age, an author that the <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/031213486X/${0}">Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a></i> credits with creating--along with Heinlein and Asimov--"the first genuinely successful period of U.S. SF." A prolific contributor to such early mags as <i>Thrilling Wonder</i>, <i>Startling Stories</i>, and <i>Astounding</i>, van Vogt distinguished himself with his expert pacing, his mind-bending ideas, and--surprising in the starched-lab-coat 1940s--his serious access to weird. (Check out 1945's cult hit <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425054543/${0}">The World of Null-A</a></i> as a prime example.)
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  ## The War Against The Rull
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This novel is based on stories which originally appeared in Astounding Science
  Fiction under the following titles:
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Repetition: copyright 1940 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cooperate or Else: copyright 1942 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Second Solution: copyright 1942 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Rull: copyright 1948 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Sound: copyright 1950 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As the spaceship vanished into the steamy mists of Eristan II, Trevor Jamieson
  drew his gun. He felt dizzy, sickened by the way he had been tossed and
  buffeted for long moments in the furious wind stream of the great ship. But
  awareness of danger held him tense there in the harness that was attached by
  cables to the antigravity plate above him. With narrowed eyes, he stared up at
  the ezwal which w