The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman
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The Remarkable Adventures of Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman (sometimes referred to as Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman) is a collection of humorous science fiction
stories by Nelson Bond, published by Doubleday Books in 1950. It compiles the fourteen stories in Bond's "Lancelot Biggs" series. Sometimes described as a novel, it presents the stories in a sequence of twenty-seven numbered chapters. The collection was reissued in trade paperback by Wildside Press
many years later; no mass market paperback edition was issued.
Twelve of the fourteen stories, excepting "Genius" and "Return", were revised for this volume.
magazine received the book rather skeptically; its reviewer commented that "Author Nelson Bond, who used to write westerns, has merely put a Space Age icing on the old Wild West conventions" and that "to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while [although] [t]he persistent will get the hang of it." P. Schuyler Miller
gave the collection a somewhat mixed review, saying that "Bond lacks few of the tricks of the born storyteller, and uses them all blandly and shamelessly."
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
stories by Nelson Bond, published by Doubleday Books in 1950. It compiles the fourteen stories in Bond's "Lancelot Biggs" series. Sometimes described as a novel, it presents the stories in a sequence of twenty-seven numbered chapters. The collection was reissued in trade paperback by Wildside Press
Wildside Press
Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1989 by John Gregory and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, it has broadened out somewhat since then, both...
many years later; no mass market paperback edition was issued.
Contents
- "F.O.B. Venus" (Fantastic AdventuresFantastic AdventuresFantastic Adventures was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1953 by Ziff-Davis. It was initially edited by Ray Palmer, who was also the editor of Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis's other science fiction title. The first nine issues were in bedsheet format, but in June 1940...
1939) - "Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate" (Fantastic Adventures 1940)
- "The Madness of Lancelot Biggs" (Fantastic Adventures 1940)
- "Lancelot Biggs, Master Navigator" (Fantastic Adventures 1940)
- "The Genius of Lancelot Biggs" (Fantastic Adventures 1940)
- "Honeymoon in Bedlam" (Weird TalesWeird TalesWeird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
1941) - "The Downfall of Lancelot Biggs" (Weird Tales 1941)
- "Where Are You, Mr. Biggs?" (Weird Tales 1941)
- "The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs" (Weird Tales 1942)
- "The Return of Lancelot Biggs" (AmazingAmazing StoriesAmazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
1942) - "The Love Song of Lancelot Biggs" (Amazing 1942)
- "Mr. Biggs Goes to Town" (Amazing 1942)
- "The Ordeal of Lancelot Biggs" (Amazing 1943)
- "The Scientific Pioneer Returns" (Amazing 1940)
Twelve of the fourteen stories, excepting "Genius" and "Return", were revised for this volume.
Reception
TimeTime (magazine)
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magazine received the book rather skeptically; its reviewer commented that "Author Nelson Bond, who used to write westerns, has merely put a Space Age icing on the old Wild West conventions" and that "to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while [although] [t]he persistent will get the hang of it." P. Schuyler Miller
P. Schuyler Miller
Peter Schuyler Miller was an American science fiction writer and critic.-Life:Miller was raised in New York's Mohawk Valley, which led to a life-long interest in the Iroquois Indians. He pursued this as an amateur archaeologist and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association.He...
gave the collection a somewhat mixed review, saying that "Bond lacks few of the tricks of the born storyteller, and uses them all blandly and shamelessly."