Short stories by A. E. van Vogt
Listing 4 stories.
In a not-so-distant future, an adventurer takes a risk and travels to Venus only to face a potentially lethal test of his intelligence by the planet's inhabitants.
In outer space, cat-like alien outwits its human captors until its own plan backfires.
A half-robot man must save Earth from his race of beings, or lose everything he loves.
A shapeshifting alien brings chaos to Earth while searching for the greatest mathematical mind in the solar system and taking over the body of a powerful stockbroker.