The Silkie Author:A.E. Van Vogt The Silkie — A living spaceship, impervious to heat and cold, virtually indestructible and capable of travelling at supersonic speeds. Similar to a human being, but not the same. Highly intelligent. Able to live under the oceans with the ease of a dolphin and the speed of a shark. A modern angel or a computerized demon? Friend of Earth, or a piti... more »less, alien destroyer? A.E. Van Vogt's greatest science fiction creation.« less