Galactic Pot-healer

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1969. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 148 Pages. Black boards. Originally appeared in paper back, this Book Club edition was the first printing of the first hardcover edition and carries the 08 L code on page 145. But professior Joe Fernwrithgt mends pots -- or any kind of ceramic ware left over from the Old Days, when such things weren't always made of plastic. Hardly anone needs his work, however, for very ceramic pieces remain. Joe is bored to death with his inactive life in the city of Cleveland (one Ohio), North American Citizens' Republic. One day a letter drops through his mail tube. Pot healer, I need you. And I will pay, the message reads. The next day, another letter says I will pay you 35,000 crumbles, the monetary unit of Sirius Five, a planet whose dominant life form is the Glimmung, an enormous creatlure which migrated there centuries ago and took over the original species, the Fog-Things. In a dangerous, try-anything mood, Joe reports to the Cleveland Spaceport for the flight to Sirius Five. Joe's terrifying adventures and dizzying exploits on Sirius Five are the subject of this witty and stimulating science fiction novel.