Nelson S. Bond 43 min read

Sparks and the crew of the freight-shuttle Saturn are hauled before two owl-eyed officials, and Cap Hanson bridles like a mick at an Orangeman's ball at whatever fresh trouble is brewing.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story is a genial comic space opera of the ingenious, eccentric Lancelot Biggs. Fun, breezy golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful romp aboard a shuttling space freighter, where the clever Biggs turns official trouble to unexpected advantage.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua