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From what I\'ve gathered, it\'s only the \'\'Null-A\'\' series, not his entire body of work, that counts here. In fact from what I\'ve read, a lot of his other works are far from rationalist. I think the stuff about his literary merit and influence on other sci-fi writers (who are not Rat Fic writers) is kind of excessive as well, seeing that they have little to do with the topic, and we already have an article on Creator/AEVanVogt.

From what I\'ve gathered, it\'s only the \'\'Null-A\'\' series, not his entire body of work, that counts here. In fact from what I\'ve read, a lot of his other works are far from rationalist. I think the stuff about his literary merit and influence on other sci-fi writers (who are not Rat Fic writers) is kind of excessive as well, seeing that they have little to do with the topic, and we already have an article on Creator/AEVanVogt.

I\'ve kept the part about his influence, but mentioned that it\'s specifically the Null-A works in particular that are an influence, and removed the irrelevant stuff. Hopefully this is a good enough compromise.

About the genre thing, I wouldn\'t call it a proper genre in the same way that alternate history or cyberpunk are, and rational fiction isn\'t really recognized outside of Less Wrong and the Reddit community centered around it (and now here). Fanfiction does have it\'s own categories though, and I believe Rational Fic got its start (and it\'s name) from taking \"regular\" fiction and rewriting it from a rationalist perspective, which would make it a fanfiction category, though with rare cases of original fiction being lumped into it and listed here if they meet the criteria.

From what I\'ve gathered, it\'s only the Null-A series, not his entire body of work, that counts here, and I think the stuff about his literary merit and influence on other sci-fi writers (who are not Rat Fic writers) is kind of excessive, seeing that we already have an article on Creator/AEVanVogt. I\'ve kept the part about his influence, but mentioned that it\'s specifically the Null-A works in particular that are an influence, and removed the irrelevant stuff.