The ordeal of Lancelot Biggs by Nelson S. Bond

"The Ordeal of Lancelot Biggs" by Nelson S. Bond is a humorous science fiction story first published in 1943. It features the misadventures of Lancelot Biggs, a spaceman whose exploits blend Wild West conventions with Space Age settings. The story is one of fourteen tales in Bond's comedic series, later collected in a 1950 volume. Reviewers noted Bond's shameless use of storytelling tricks and pseudo-scientific language, creating adventures that translate frontier tales into interstellar escapades. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Bond, Nelson S., 1908-2006
Title The ordeal of Lancelot Biggs
Original Publication New York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1943.
Series Title Produced from Amazing Stories May 1943.
Series Title Lancelot Biggs, 13
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remarkable_Exploits_of_Lancelot_Biggs,_Spaceman
Credits Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Science fiction
Subject Short stories
Subject Space ships -- Fiction
Subject Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 74132
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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