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The Weapon Shops of Isher

The Weapon Shops of Isher

DystopianScience Fiction
Pages
191
Published
1954
Language
English

Synopsis

A 20th-century reporter, McAllister, is flung 7000 years into a future dominated by the Isher empire and its empress, Innelda. His unexpected arrival disrupts the delicate balance of this advanced civilization, setting him on a path toward a destiny he could never have imagined. This journey will force him to confront the paradoxes of time and the intricate power structures of a distant future.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MysteriousThought-ProvokingAdventurous
Fish Out of WaterTime Loop

Genres

Dystopian Science Fiction Time Travel

About the author

A
A. E. van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba. Early in his career he wrote for true confession pulp magazines like True Story, but in the late 1930s he began writing science fiction, which he was more interested in. His first published SF story, "Black Destroyer" was published in 1939, and is considered to be one of the first works of the Golden Age of science fiction. In 1941 he left his job at the Department of National Defence to...

Characters

McAllisterProtagonist
InneldaAntagonist
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