Nelson S. Bond 29 min read

Barely clear of Lunar Three, Sparks Donovan's radio plates go dark and his temper flares, and Cap Hanson wanders in, Space Manual in hand, meaning the genius Biggs is at it 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 schemes always work, just not the way anyone expects, narrated by the exasperated Sparks, 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