Nelson S. Bond 38 min read

Promoted to trouble-shooter, the space-freighter Saturn now draws the nastiest jobs in the void, and as Sparks and Cap Hanson chat at the home of Lancelot Biggs, a new ordeal is surely brewing.

Nelson S. Bond's 1943 story is a delightful space-opera comedy, a Lancelot Biggs tale. Fun, witty, charming. Read it for more beloved misadventures of the gangling genius Lancelot Biggs, whose brilliant, screwball solutions turn every special assignment into hilarious chaos, narrated by the long-suffering Sparks, in classic golden-age humorous SF.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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