Randall Garrett 6 min read

On a planet whose god is a dying giant lichen, the unflappable Benedict Breadfruit diagnoses the trouble and prescribes the cure, each vignette ending in a groan-worthy punning payoff.

Randall Garrett's 1962 series gathers short, comic SF vignettes built around outrageous puns. Silly, clever, delightful. Read it for a string of tiny, tongue-in-cheek adventures each engineered to deliver a spectacular pun (and a scrambled byline), in Garrett's most gleefully groan-inducing golden-age humor, SF as pure, affectionate wordplay.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

6 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).