New York: Crown, (1964) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a comic story of space exploration featuring a robot in a body designed by Disney with a human brain to pilot the space craft - and with the mating instincts of a Casanova! INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1977. Anderson spent 22 years in the air force as a pilot and in the Space and Defense branch, so the technical aspects in this book are based on actual space advances. 255 pp.