Nelson S. Bond 29 min read

Sparks Donovan should have smelled trouble the moment gravel-voiced Cap Hanson started talking sweety-pie, a sure sign the gangling genius Lancelot Biggs is about to strike again.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story is a delightful space-opera comedy, a Lancelot Biggs tale. Fun, witty, charming. Read it for more beloved misadventures of Lancelot Biggs, whose brilliant, screwball inventions always work, just not the way anyone expects, narrated by the exasperated Sparks Donovan, in classic golden-age humorous SF.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Julian S. Krupa