His classic science fiction novel Rogue Moon (1960), a conceptual-breakthrough novel about an alien labyrinth on the Moon, was nominated for the 1961 Hugo Award, but lost to A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..

I have seen Adolf Hitler, Henry Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur . . . I have shaken Harry Truman's hand. I have seen the Graf Zeppelin . . . I have seen the swastika-chalked brick-halves that came through our windows at night, and I was playing in a sandbox in Manhattan the afternoon the Hindenburg cruised overhead on her way to a thunderstorm and her grave. I have been called a Nazi, a Communist, a clod, a petit bourgeois and a long-haired egg-head. I am, in short, a child of the twentieth century.