Rogue Ship is a 1965 novel by A. E. van Vogt, created and adapted from 3 short stories to form a novel. The 3 short stores used were:
- Centarus II Originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1947
- Rogue Ship Originally published in Super Science Stories in 1950
- The Expendables Originally published in if Worlds of Science Fiction in 1963
Using Van Vogt's own terminology when creating a novel from 3 previous short stories, he named it a Fixup.
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“It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)