Books: Scientist Fiction

THE STRUGGLES OF ALBERT WOODS (287 pp.) — William Cooper — Doubleday ($3.50).

"Forward, Woods!" cried Albert Woods to his diary in the high spirits of youth. "Let your light shine!" Poor Albert—fate had equipped him with a million-watt ambition, but his soul was wired for common house-current. Or, as British Author William Cooper states it in this entertaining novel about The Struggles of Albert Woods: "Can you be a great man if you have a touch of the little man? That was Albert Woods's life problem."

Nonetheless, against all odds, and even against...