Silkie is a Romance of Science-fiction, written in 1969 by A.E. van Vogt (Canada).

This novel rather seems a mosaic of stories that like a plain whole. Being remarkable by the topics approached (a planet museum, for example), certain amateurs regard this novel as a major work of van Vogt.

Summary

Silkie is a very powerful being which is brought to face various fantastic beings to ensure its survival. For example, he will face in singular combat a being which saw the birth of our universe. Making way, it will learn the secrecy from its origin, just like various secrecies of the universe and will manage to touch immortality.

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