In the early fifties the paperback publishing business began; and they wanted novels primarily. And so I began to look over my work to see what I could fit together. It was strictly commercial. […] Let's put it very simply: a novel would sell whereas the individual stories seldom did. Hence, the great thought came; and the fix-up novels began. It was a strictly commercial idea in a period when incomes were tiny, and pulp writers all across the land were starving. It was only later that I learned the fix-ups had their critics. I could only shake my head over these people; to me, they were obviously dilettantes who didn't understand the economics of writing science fiction. Robert Weinberg: A. E. van Vogt: The Weinberg Interview. 1980, abgerufen am 29. Oktober 2017.
