Joe Archibald 23 min read

Septimus Spink, first Earthman to reach and return from New Mu by flying saucer, crashes a meeting of eminent cosmogonists to laugh at their theories, and toss in a hydroactive bombshell of his own.

Joe Archibald's 1949 story is a broad, comic space-opera romp starring a boastful, tall-tale-telling adventurer. Fun, absurd golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial farce where an outrageous saucer-riding braggart upends the scientific establishment with his amazing ideas.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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