The Wizard of Linn

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A note on the edition: The text of the story here is that of the original magazine editions first published in Astounding Science Fiction, not the later versions which A. E. van Vogt reworked

for various novelizations.

"The Wizard of Linn" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction in a three-part serial,

April-June, 1950.

In the deceptive darkness of space, the alien ship moved with only an occasional glint of reflected sunlight to show its presence. It paused for many months to study the moons of Jupiter, and the Risscreatures aboard neither concealed the presence of their ship, nor made a particular display of it or of themselves.

A score of times, Riss exploring parties ran into human beings. Their policy on such occasions was invariable. They killed every human who saw them. Once, on remote Titan, the hilly nature of the terrain with its innumerable caves enabled a man to evade the net they spread for him. That night, after he had had ample time to reach the nearest village, an atomic bomb engulfed the entire area.

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