Away and Beyond (1952) is vintage van Vogt, with 7 good stories:"The Vault of the Beast" (1940) An implacable shape changing alienmonster from Mars is defeated by a flight of van Vogtian super mathematics.The Great Engine (1943) is interesting, but not one of the great tales. **The Great Judge (1948) is a brief P.K. Dickian tale ***Secret Unattainable (1942) includes Hitler's secret weapon, a good story. ***"The Harmonizer" (1944) A Stapledonian vignette which compresses eighty million years in a few pages.The Second Solution (1942)- is a good beast tale. ***"Film Library" (1946) A particularly vivid "hard SF" dream which is not about anything but itself. *Asylum (1942) - not just a vampire tale, but a PK Dickian story! ****
