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Language English Pages 224 Publisher Doubleday | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 1950 Originally published 1950 Page count 224 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) Genres Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar That Worlds May Live, Exiles of Time, Nightmares and Daydreams, Other Worlds Than Ours, The Far Side of Nowhere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 comprises eleven of 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.
Contents
Contents, in order of their appearance in the collection
Not included in the book were:
The eleven Lancelot Biggs stories included were revised for this volume to provide continuity from one episode to the next. The Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections incorrectly lists "The Scientific Pioneer Returns" as one of the volume's included stories.
Reception
Time 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."