Nelson S. Bond 30 min read

Mid-daydream, vanquishing imaginary Nazi spies, student Air Warden Peter Pettigrew is jolted back to the dull Armory lecture room by an exasperated sergeant, to the giggles of his classmates.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story spins genial space-opera comedy from a daydreaming would-be hero. Fun, breezy golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful tale where a mild fellow's flights of heroic fancy blur, wonderfully, into a real adventure.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Russell Milburn