Nelson S. Bond 38 min read

The freighter Saturn is bound on a routine cargo run to Uranus, but with the screwball genius Lancelot Biggs on the bridge, Sparks Donovan knows almost anything is likely to happen.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story is a delightful space-opera comedy, a Lancelot Biggs tale. Fun, witty, charming. Read it for another beloved Biggs misadventure, where the gangling genius's latest scheme turns a humdrum voyage into hilarious chaos, narrated by his long-suffering pal Sparks, in warm, inventive golden-age humorous SF.

In its time

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

Reading it

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