Mr. van Vogt has descended from the outermost reaches of the galaxy and selected today’s China as the setting for his first non-SF novel.
Prior to this he has confined his writing to science fiction—ranging, according to his interest of the moment, from the dianetics of L. Ron Hubbard to the general semantics of Korzybski. In The Violent Man he has attempted a novel on Communist brainwashing; the bibliography he appends indicates a serious effort to comprehend and analyze Communism itself as well as one of its more horrendous persuasion/coercion techniques.
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