This book is an expanded version of E. Mayne Hull's short story "The Winged Man" which originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944. Apparently it was expanded and revised by van Vogt, who "added 25.000 words, altogether, inserted a new villain, and made better use of some of the characters", to quote a quote from Galactic Central bibliography. |
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WASN'T A BIRD - BUT IT COULDN'T BE A MAN!
Lt.William Kenlon had watched the incredible creature
circling the submarine Sea Serpent in the darkness of the
night, and he could barely believe what he saw.The giant
winged monster was human-and it was intent on some
purpose that involved the sub and its crew. Then the
creature landed-and suddenly, impossibly, the Sea Serpent
was in another world. A world of the far future; where
the land was uninhabitable and humanity as Kenlon knew it
had died out. A world in which the strange bird-men of
the air warred with the even stranger denizens of the sea
for domination. And in that bizarre battle for survival,
the men from the 20th century were the vital factor! 