- Paperback
- Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (Jan 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0425033686
- ISBN-13: 978-0425033685
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,082,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is more than "just another science fiction novel". It comes with a message: to get further in life, you have to get yourself to thinking sane. As a solution, consider "non-aristotelian thinking". Several chapters of this book start with "quotes" of this "null-A" thinking, sometimes referring to Korzybski's book "Science and Sanity" (yes, it's available from Amazon)! Actually several SF fans I encountered, including Denis Bridoux, my co-author for the English version of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence" got intrigued in this "general semantics" thing. In fact, if it weren't for this book, I would never have met Denis. As such, we should have mentioned Van Vogt in the Acknowledgements of our book. Given the age of this book, it is still refreshing reading: a real SF classic that kept its quality despite its age. Indeed, the whole idea of nul-A thinking is still ahead of our times, despite that the principles were stated more than 68 years ago! Of course, for those wanting to learn to think in a null-A manner, there are now more accessible books, such as "Drive Yourself Sane, Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics" by Susan Presby & Bruce Kodish. And our own book also includes the principles that Van Voght refers to, given that it helps to increase your emotional intelligence.
Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc -- co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
Format:Paperback
The premise of the book is that there is no such thing as an independent observer, as is often spoken of, especially when discussing things like Einsteins theories of relativity. Thought processes have been developed, so that the hero is never surprised by any of the strange turns that events throw at him. Gradually as you make the effort, the mystery and adventure begins to take shape, and is worth the work you have put in.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is amazing how emotianl intelligence has gathered ground. Van Vogt wrote and/or hinted about it in quite a few of his novels/short stories. I read Null-A when I was 13, and did not understand it very well. I have read it several times later and still find it fascinating. Time is relative, Space is relative, Life is well relative too... Since most of our lives is in relation to a mapping of some sort or other, we are not in control and so are unwitting pawns of whoever does the mapping for us... The ones who do so seem to evolve from pressures in social forces, and they are the visionaries, poets, thinkers and major doers at any given time... But there might be other forces in the background, and we might never know what they are... but thgen we might find out one day, this is what makes scientific research and this life we have so little control over (despite egotistic claims to the contrary) so exhilarating and fascinating...
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