The Wooden Star

New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Very Good-. 1968. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear , There is a small spot of color loss to the front panel where a sticker was removed. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a former bookstore inkstamp on the front inside cover, along with a previous owner's inked name and date. Included are: Generation of Noah, Brooklyn Project, The Dark Star, Null-P, Eastward Ho! , The Deserter, Betelgeuse Bridge, Will you Walk a Little Faster, It Ends with a Flicker, Lisbon Cubed, The Masculinist Revolt, "Klass published academic articles, essays, two novels and more than 60 short stories. He began writing while working at Bell Labs, and his radar lab experience prompted his first story, "Alexander the Bait", about a radar beam aimed at the moon. It was published in Astounding Science Fiction (May 1946) , and within months a Signal Corps lab bounced a radar beam off the moon, making his story obsolete. He commented, "It was a bad story, just good enough to be published. Others in the same magazine were much better, so I really worked hard on my second one. I did as well as I knew how." Some of the nonfiction articles in the trade periodical TWX Magazine have been attributed to Klass during his employment at Bell Labs, although most were published without by-lines. " (from Wikipedia) .