Project Gutenberg 2023-03-08 Public domain in the USA. 191 Van Vogt, A. E. (Alfred Elton) 1912 2000 Vogt, Alfred Elton van Vogt, A. E. van (Alfred Elton) Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay The expendables $aUnited States :$bGalaxy Publishing Corporation, $c1963. Centaurus Produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1963 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Expendables" by A. E. Van Vogt is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s, emerging from a period when space exploration was a burgeoning theme in literature. The book explores themes of power, survival, and human ingenuity in a high-stakes interstellar setting. It tells the story of a spaceship carrying generations of colonists as they face existential threats from alien beings and internal discord. In the narrative, the spaceship "Hope of Man" arrives at the alien world of Alta III, where the crew must navigate a complex web of power struggles and alien encounters. When Captain Browne decides to send a lifeboat crew to the planet, tensions rise as John Lesbee, a skilled technician, recognizes that he and his conspiratorial friends are being manipulated into a dangerous situation. Upon encountering the telepathic Karn aliens, Lesbee seizes on the opportunity to turn the tables against Browne, who represents a lineage of command that oppresses his own family. As the tension escalates to a climax involving betrayal, strategic maneuvers, and the quest for supremacy, Lesbee must ultimately decide between power and the well-being of the entire expedition. With themes of betrayal and the question of what it means to be "expendable," Van Vogt's story engages with notions of loyalty, authority, and the moral complexities of leadership. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20221201061634vanvogt 1963 US Reading ease score: 74.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Space travelers -- Fiction Interpersonal conflict -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 98061 2025-07-28T03:38:07.831552 text/html 94965 2023-03-16T19:24:57 text/html 631466 2025-07-28T03:38:10.986571 application/epub+zip 631367 2025-07-28T03:38:08.794597 application/epub+zip 302351 2025-07-28T03:38:08.250614 application/epub+zip 1348929 2025-07-28T03:38:12.594561 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1341060 2025-07-28T03:38:10.518577 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88906 2025-07-28T03:38:07.581569 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 86685 2023-03-16T19:25:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19473 2025-07-28T03:38:12.735603 application/rdf+xml 34041 2025-07-28T03:38:08.446543 image/jpeg 5338 2025-07-28T03:38:08.348542 image/jpeg 33083 2023-03-16T19:25:14 application/octet-stream application/zip 577938 2023-03-16T19:25:14 application/octet-stream application/zip 587220 2025-07-28T03:38:07.854542 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia