Nelson S. Bond 24 min read

Ordered abruptly from an Earth-Mars run to fetch gallium from Uranus, radioman Sparks rouses the grumbling skipper, the start of another cosmic mix-up starring the gangling genius Lancelot Biggs.

Nelson S. Bond's 1941 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 genius turns a routine cargo run into hilarious chaos, narrated by the exasperated Sparks, in classic golden-age humorous SF from a master of the comic space yarn.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Harry Ferman