Pattern For Conquest: An Interplanetary Adventure.

SF novel. Edd Cartier dustjacket. ''he also wrote several space operas whose technical assumptions have likewise dated - perhaps because he was sufficiently numerate to make use of falsifiable speculations. The rocket gimmickry, the sense of space, and the kind of protagonists featured in his stories were - for instance - strongly reminiscent of but markedly less entrancing than the more expansive galactic venues of E.E. ''Doc'' Smith's Lensmen series, the later volumes of which were being serialized in Astounding SF at about the same time. Most of his space epic concerns an alien invasion of the Solar System, such as PATTERN FOR CONQUEST (1946 Astounding SF; 1949) and the inferior Hellflower (1953). Never strongly original, the author was nonetheless an effective expounder of ideas and an enjoyable sf novelist of the second rank'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF). Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with spine edge wear.