"The Monster" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published in the August 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The story is often described as highly characteristic of the late Golden Age of Science Fiction; van Vogt considered it one of his personal favorites, and it was retroactively selected as one of the best stories of 1948 by Isaac Asimov in 1983. It has been one of van Vogt's most frequently anthologized short stories - sometimes under the alternate title "Resurrection" - and was included in several of his early collections, including 1952's Destination: Universe! and 1965's Monsters. Source: Wikipedia (en)