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Siege of the Unseen

A. E. van Vogt

First published October 1946
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

<b>From the first page of the Ace Double:</b> "The three eyes of evil - The crash was over, the car on its side. Slade sprawled dizzily on his back, while something warm trickled from his forehead into his left eye. He wiped it away, and saw with a start it was blood. The skin was torn raggedly... <p>"A third eye was plainly visible. The eyelid of it was closed by a surplus of sticky matter, but abruptly he grew aware that it was pulsing with a vague perception of light..." <p>At first it was a grotesque discover, when the accident revealed that young businessman Michael Slade was a bizarre freak - a man with three eyes. But the impact of what it meant to <i>see</i> with three eyes was even more macabre. For Slade, that shocking third eye was his entry into a strange new dimension of terror and adventure - a fearful new world that would wrap itself about him forever!"

First appearance under this title in Ace Double 1959 with The World-Swappers by John Brunner.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1946 Cover Astounding Science Fiction, October 1946 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 7
November 1946 Cover Astounding Science Fiction, November 1946 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 138
April 1952 Cover Five Science Fiction Novels Gnome Press Anthology 277
December 1952 Cover Urania #2 Mondadori MAGAZINE 3
October 1959 Cover Siege of the Unseen / The World Swappers Ace Books Omnibus 5
September 1962 Cover Der Mann mit dem dritten Auge Moewig Chapbook
1963 Cover L'assaut de l'invisible Hachette Chapbook 5
1963 Cover Asediante invisible Cenit Chapbook
February 1968 Cover Der Mann mit dem dritten Auge Moewig Chapbook 5
April 1971 Cover M 33 in Andromeda Paperback Library Collection 7
April 1971 Cover M 33 in Andromeda Paperback Library Collection 7
May 1972 Cover Het derde oog De Vrijbuiter / De Schorpioen Chapbook 5
June 1973 Cover The Three Eyes of Evil and Earth's Last Fortress Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 5
1975 Cover De Meesterbreinen Scala Collection 101
March 1976 Cover Science Fiction Special (16) Sidgwick & Jackson Omnibus
April 1977 Cover À l'assaut de l'invisible Presses Pocket Chapbook 7
November 1977 Cover Earth's Last Fortress and The Three Eyes of Evil Sphere Books Collection 91
May 1978 Cover Science Fiction Special (26) Sidgwick & Jackson Omnibus
1979 Cover Earth's Last Fortress and The Three Eyes of Evil Sphere Collection 93
November 1979 Cover Destinazione Universo Editrice Nord Collection 293
July 1981 Cover À l'assaut de l'invisible Presses Pocket Chapbook 7
August 1984 Cover À l'assaut de l'invisible Presses Pocket Chapbook 7
April 1990 Cover À l'assaut de l'invisible Presses Pocket Chapbook 7
December 1990 Cover À l'assaut de l'invisible Presses Pocket Chapbook
October 1994 Cover L'occhio dell'infinito Compagnia del Fantastico / Gruppo Newton Chapbook 5