Nelson S. Bond 23 min read

The whole trouble started with Slops, the cook with a 'tapioca complex', tapioca for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, until the iron-bellied Cap Hanson finally kicks him off the freight lugger Saturn.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story is a genial comic space opera starring his beloved, eccentric hero Lancelot Biggs. Fun, breezy golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful romp aboard a shuttling space freighter, where the ingenious Biggs turns a cooking crisis into a run-in with pirates.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua