Nelson S. Bond 29 min read

Home from the funeral of Lancelot Biggs, dead, or lost seven weeks in the gray nothingness of negative space, hard-boiled Sparks Donovan finds he doesn't feel hard-boiled at all.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story is a delightful space-opera comedy, a Lancelot Biggs tale. Fun, witty, charming. Read it for a genial adventure where the seemingly-dead genius Lancelot Biggs proves, characteristically, to be far from finished, in a warm, inventive golden-age comedy narrated by his devoted, wisecracking friend Sparks.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Harry Ferman