William Tenn

William Tenn is the pseudonym for the science fiction work of Philip Klass (born May 9, 1920). Born in London, he and his parents moved to New York in the 1920s. He served in the United States Army during World War II and started writing fiction while working at Bell Labs. He was a professor of English at Penn State University from the mid '60s to the late '80s, though he does not have a college degree. He has written over 60 stories, mostly satires on social and business themes. Some of his best-known stories are "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi," "Alexander the Bait," (his first story, which he now considers his worst) "Child's Play", "Time in Advance", "Down Among the Dead Men" and "Venus and the Seven Sexes".

External links

• Official website
• Official bibliography
• "Constantinople"
• "Welles or Wells: The First Invasion from Mars"