Nelson S. Bond 27 min read

Homesick Isobar Jones, weather-monitor on the Moon and the only man who can play the bagpipes on this dagnabbed hunk o' green cheese, grumbles at the Dome Commander, as real trouble looms.

Nelson S. Bond's 1943 story is a delightful space-opera comedy. Fun, warm, charming. Read it for a genial lunar yarn starring the homesick, bagpipe-loving Isobar Jones, whose grousing gives way to unexpected heroics when danger strikes the Moon colony, in a light, good-humored golden-age piece with a memorably lovable everyman hero.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Walker