Nelson S. Bond 30 min read

Three hours out of spaceport, the fuchsia-faced skipper of the space-scow Saturn sidles into the radio turret, shushing and glancing about, a sure sign Lancelot Biggs has done it again.

Nelson S. Bond's 1941 story is a delightful space-opera comedy, a Lancelot Biggs tale. Fun, witty, charming. Read it for the beloved comic misadventures of Lancelot Biggs, the gangling genius spaceman whose brilliant schemes always go hilariously awry, narrated by the long-suffering radioman Sparks, in classic golden-age humorous SF.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Henry del Campo