Jack G. Huekels 11 min read

A professor who's toiled fifteen years without greatness makes a discovery that lights up everything in sight, literally.

Jack G. Huekels's 1930 story plays its mad-science premise for comedy, with the plodding Professor Carbonic and his enormous servant Mag Nesia bumbling toward an electrical breakthrough. Light, punning early pulp SF from the earliest days of the American science-fiction magazine. Read it for a genial period curiosity, all groan-worthy chemistry puns and laboratory slapstick.

In its time

Published in 1930, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

11 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Llewellyn