Nelson S. Bond 27 min read

'Everything happens to me,' sighs Sparks, for the freight lugger Saturn is in port when its commander swears it should be off among the planetoids, and the unpredictable Lancelot Biggs is behind it.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story is another genial comic space opera of the eccentric, ingenious Lancelot Biggs. Fun, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a breezy tale of shipboard confusion and clever improvisation, narrated by Biggs's long-suffering radioman.

In its time

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

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Julian S. Krupa